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related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743062 - starts with this quote and checks whether it even applied
by ikari_pl 3y ago
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743062 - starts with this quote and checks whether it even applied to the BASIC we talk about here. Points out at least a few of the advantages of the integrated BASIC environment.
It also never killed it off, and it wasn't a big rant - just a single sentence - either. He also ranted over a few other languages in the same list.
PHP, like JS, sees a lot of unstructured code relying on random global variables in the wild as well :)