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"ease of extending the language played a large part in its tremendous success," It's the reason I picked it up back in 2001. Being a C programmer up until tha
by xd 14y ago
"ease of extending the language played a large part in its tremendous success,"
It's the reason I picked it up back in 2001. Being a C programmer up until that point it made the transition to web development incredibly easy.
On a side note, I still remember how awesome being able to do `"some string" == $var` was.
- taylorbuley 14y agoThe spaghetti structure is one of PHP's biggest strengths and weaknesses. A novice can just pick up PHP and run with it. She can start blindly with unstructured code, then move to methods, then finally to OO. The downside, of course: http://www.flickr.com/photos/raindrift/sets/72157629492908038/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/raindrift/sets/7215762949290803...