Recently on Hacker News it has become common place to bash PHP. There was an article posted to the site with a title of “At 14, is PHP Finally Growing Up?” which started a slew of flame bait. I took it upon myself to post this morsel of a comment:
I would like to argue the C language argument here. If I want to shoot myself in the foot, the language should let me. If I want to paint the Mona Lisa, the language should let me. PHP does that.
That prompted a few snarky remarks about which resolutions and to what extent PHP could paint the Mona Lisa.
So I did it.
Full size: http://williamriggins.com/mona.php?x=400&y=571
Favicon Size: http://williamriggins.com/mona.php?x=10&y=10
Code (minus base64′d image constant): http://pastie.org/506643
yeah, i see what your trying to say……Infortunately, i haven’t found a language that could stop me from painting the Mona Lisa….realistically i don’t think i can paint that well….but no language is going to stop me. well….hmm what language are those machine gun robots the military is attacking terrorists with programmed using? they may stop me. in any case. go php. but i prefer AJAX