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This post is my response to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463305 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463305 ("Why PHP Was a Ghetto"). PHP is a si
by citizenkeys 16y ago
This post is my response to this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463305 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463305 ("Why PHP Was a Ghetto").
PHP is a simple loosely-typed server-side scripting language. When most of us adopted PHP, our only real alternative was Microsoft's ActiveServer Pages. I can crank out a simple PHP script with session handling and database features faster than your average Rails developer can search Google for a gem to install.