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This. PHP is PHP just like Javascript is Javascript. Their growth process was a bunch of people needing things and just implementing them one by one without a g

by vegai_ 4y ago

This. PHP is PHP just like Javascript is Javascript. Their growth process was a bunch of people needing things and just implementing them one by one without a grand design. It kinda works, but it'll never be Good in a theoretical sense. Disturbingly for us language geeks, it doesn't seem to matter at all that they're not very good.

astrange 4y ago
PHP has value types - the one "every data structure at once" type gets deep copied when you pass it to another function. That's enough to make it a good programming language, whereas Python is unnecessarily 90s class-based OOP with reference types.
- vegai_ 4y ago
  I don't quite understand what you mean here. Do you have an example?
  - astrange 4y ago
    If you have a dictionary and pass it around to someone else's code and it gets changed, those changes affect your code too instead of copying it, which is annoying and less safe.