That didn’t bother me so much (less than it should have), but string manipulation in C is tedious, man! And there was soo much string manipulation (none of it done by a helpful framework)…
I used Perl instead, which worked way better in that regard (+ taint based security was welcome in handling untrusted user input), and an enormous (for the time) CPAN ecosystem, but had other problems.
Python web ecosystem was a mess, so PHP3 it was (ah the “good” ol days of mysql_real_escape_string()) … until some enterprising individuals wrote Django and I happily switched. Thank you :)
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That didn’t bother me so much (less than it should have), but string manipulation in C is tedious, man! And there was soo much string manipulation (none of it done by a helpful framework)…
I used Perl instead, which worked way better in that regard (+ taint based security was welcome in handling untrusted user input), and an enormous (for the time) CPAN ecosystem, but had other problems.
Python web ecosystem was a mess, so PHP3 it was (ah the “good” ol days of mysql_real_escape_string()) … until some enterprising individuals wrote Django and I happily switched. Thank you :)