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One problem is that the people in charge of PHP and their ongoing bad choices.

• revolvingcur 16y ago
  Yeah. I'm cherry-picking here, but if the creator of the language says something like the following, it's probably a bad sign. "I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say 'yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.' I'll just restart apache every 10 requests." But because that could sound like either DHH or Rasmus Lerdorf, there's also this: "I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way." The lack of overall direction and ball-o-mud hackery is exactly what one would expect to underlie PHP in its present state.
  • robryan 16y ago
    It's a feature though, it's not like there aren't web development languages that have been designed in a much beter way. I think it's good to have one from the "it get's the job done" mindset.