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Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 20:50:49 +0000
To: "php internals" <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Package for PHP
From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Fri, May 19, 2023, at 6:55 PM, Robert Landers wrote:
> I'd also like to add that I like the 'hands-off' approach that PHP has
> taken in the past. I'm not a fan of some of the PSRs. I literally had
> someone tell me a few months ago that I would never be a 'real
> programmer' because I used tabs instead of spaces which is against the
> PSR-12 spec (which is my only deviation from the spec, and why is that
> even in the spec in the first place? :sigh:). Luckily for me, I guess,
> I think I'm 'real programmer' ... even though it still feels like a
> hobby (even 20 years later), but people pay me a bunch of money to do
> it and people seem to like my work.

As the person who has recently taken over as Editor for PER-CS (which is the new edition of PSR-12), let me state for the record that person is full of shit and you're welcome to tell them I said so. :-)

That said, people really get fussy about the coding style PSRs/PER, but FIG has done way more than that, and arguably much more important things. :-)  But I digress...

--Larry Garfield