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jack9 on Oct 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ewww, You Use PHP? (2010)

> Syntactically, PHP is atrocious.

Saying "<PHP's syntax> is atrocious" has always been spurious (or simply mischaracterized as "I like X better"). Compared to what? C or Erlang or Haskell? It's really damaging to credibility to start with flamebaiting.

combatentropy on Oct 14, 2016 [–]

He likes PHP, but its syntax is not the best. It's not a matter of taste, because its syntax is inconsistent.

See http://www.phpsadness.com/, specifically Inconsistency and Cruft.

Hey, I like PHP too. And inelegant syntax is not the end of the world.

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