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Comment by agubelu

8 hours ago

For context, this is the blog post in question:

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Ugh, that article. It took a few good points that represented real practical annoyances for working with the language, it added a monumental helping of perfectly dense refusal to consider merits that made PHP successful, and then when combined with investments programmers had made in other languages and cultural momentum took on an oversized undeserved life of its own.