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Wikipedia, openstreetmap, Facebook - lots of world changing projects were started by hacking something together in PHP.
by jackweirdy 8y ago
Wikipedia, openstreetmap, Facebook - lots of world changing projects were started by hacking something together in PHP.
- sneak 8y ago...started in a vastly different landscape than today. Lots of world-changing projects were written in FORTRAN or APL but that doesn’t make them suitable for new apps today. Also, many world-changing projects that did succeed would have been rendered total failures had they chosen this pathological language early on. Your examples do not support your point.
- jackweirdy 8y ago“Suitable” is a subjective term. The best tool for a job is the simplest one that gets the job done and the one you know best. Would I start a startup in PHP tomorrow? Probably not (not least because I don’t know PHP). But that doesn’t make it unsuitable for everything.