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If PHP had the ability to be changed by PHP programmers, then the massive community would have cleanly fixed all the problems already. PHP's greatest strength
by mootothemax 16y ago
If PHP had the ability to be changed by PHP programmers, then the massive community would have cleanly fixed all the problems already.
PHP's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness: it's very easy to pick up and start running code. Have you read the huge number of broken tutorials that tell newbie users how cool, for example, variable variables are? Can you imagine the new levels of abuse such a system would introduce? ;)
- jrockway 16y agoCan you imagine the new levels of abuse such a system would introduce? Actually yes, it's called Rails. But anyway, a system that can't be broken is also one that can't be fixed. PHP programmers switching to Rails did some weird stuff, but without that ability to do weird stuff, Rails wouldn't have even been possible.