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But what is the reason why I would look back at PHP, when there have been better alternatives available for quite a while now?

• corobo 10y ago
  I'll be honest I don't really care what languages people use, not my place to convince you back. Just saying there's quite high chances PHP has changed at least a tiny bit over the past 12 years
  • Drdrdrq 10y ago
    I started using PHP when it was in version 3 and still use it occassionally. It has changed, but not considerably. The function naming is still a mess (backwards compatibility), arrays are completely inappropriate (naming them "bags" would be better), some decisions were so baffling (safe mode and magic quotes, superglobals, square brackets for arrays...) that I simply don't trust PHP to ever get better. But there was a reason for experienced developers to use it - hosting. You could write a web app, ftp it somewhere and it would just work. There was no other platform aside from asp which would offer that. Nowadays this doesn't matter much, but 10 years ago it was great. As a language though? Ugly. Just plain ugly.
    • krapp 10y ago
      I get safe mode, magic quotes and superglobals - but don't most languages use square brackets for arrays? It certainly doesn't seem like a controversial thing to do.
    • stephenr 10y ago
      If php3 to php7 isn't a considerable change to you, I'm not sure any change to anything ever, would register as a change for you, would it?