> I'm going through it again, and __a lot of it is about the big clumsy library__. And even a lot of that isn't fair because PHP has always integrated C librar

> I'm going through it again, and __a lot of it is about the big clumsy library__. And even a lot of that isn't fair because PHP has always integrated C libraries directly; which was a huge strength when it was new. A function like mysql_real_escape_string isn't a PHP function, it's a MySQL function ( https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-real-escape-string.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-real-escape-st... ).