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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 10:56:18 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Revisiting RFC: Engine Warnings -- Undefined array index
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022, at 10:39 AM, Deleu wrote:

>> And yes, I used to work on a system that didn't do that properly.  (TYPO3,
>> ~800,000 LOC)  It took me a few weeks, but we still managed to fix all of
>> these issues in mostly one-person-month, mostly with dropping "?? null"
>> around in various places.  It's not the world-destroyer people make it out
>> to be.
>>
>
> Do you honestly think that everyone with a small/medium PHP project
> (500k~1M LOC) out there has someone as competent as you capable of
> achieving what you did? That is definitely a dream rock to live under.

In all modesty, 95% of the changes I made to get TYPO3 ready for 8.0 could have been made by a junior dev with a checklist and a few patterns to copy and paste.  "Run tests, look at logs, fix a few lines, repeat."  It was hardly the most intellectually stimulating work I've done.

--Larry Garfield