> I have no idea what you mean by "what SQLAlchemy does"
You must have missed the rest of that paragraph. I specified what it does.
> What he's talking about here is known and talked about for 10 years. It's just function names, it's not that big a problem.
Again, missing the point. Python has these same minor inconsistencies in its stdlib. It's the combination of all these minor inconsistencies with a language that gives you more tools to write bad code than good that makes PHP torturous. It's everything that the author wrote about in one neat little package.
You must have missed the rest of that paragraph. I specified what it does.
> What he's talking about here is known and talked about for 10 years. It's just function names, it's not that big a problem.
Again, missing the point. Python has these same minor inconsistencies in its stdlib. It's the combination of all these minor inconsistencies with a language that gives you more tools to write bad code than good that makes PHP torturous. It's everything that the author wrote about in one neat little package.