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Avoiding taking a position on the core issue... "but Facebook and Wikipedia use PHP!" is the same argument as "the guys who participate and win awards at ACM IC
by kemayo 14y ago
Avoiding taking a position on the core issue... "but Facebook and Wikipedia use PHP!" is the same argument as "the guys who participate and win awards at ACM ICPC and TopCoder", no? If you want to object to the former, don't then use the latter. :P
- 10098 14y agoThat's a correct remark. I detailed about why I think php is a bad language to start in one of the comments below :) Basically, the "facebook argument" is widely used to prove that php is good for solving real-world problems, but the truth is, facebook is a complex system and it is not written entirely in php, like some people seem to think.