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Ever notice how everyone who complains about PHP are usually complaining about WordPress, Joomla, or other such apps?
by jasonlotito 13y ago
Ever notice how everyone who complains about PHP are usually complaining about WordPress, Joomla, or other such apps?
- sergiosgc 13y agoBecause these apps exist. WordPress, for example, is unparalleled in other language domains. What is the WordPress of Ruby? And in python? Is it Django? Where's the plug-in directory for Django, equivalent to [1]? I work with WP, I'm the first to recognize it's an old codebase with all defects this entails, but popularity has value. Value that PHP critics dismiss too lightly. [1] http://wordpress.org/plugins/ http://wordpress.org/plugins/
- jasonlotito 13y agoI'm not dismissing WordPress's value. Rather, I'm dismissing those that dismiss PHP out-of-hand and their lists of reasons include WordPress.