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I don't suppose you could share your best code so the HN community can criticize it to the point of breaking and use that as a straw man argument to wipe your l
by choult 13y ago
I don't suppose you could share your best code so the HN community can criticize it to the point of breaking and use that as a straw man argument to wipe your language of choice off the face of the planet?
As evidenced by all sorts of open source software, you can write horrendous things in the most elegant and designed of languages.
Yes, PHP has quite a mongrel history. But it has its uses, and its spheres of excellence. The past couple of years have seen a great increase in concerted efforts to improve the language and to introduce a more robust and disciplined ecosystem.
(I know I really shouldn't feed the trolls, but these arguments always annoy me so lets put this down to a one-time rant.)