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People who make heavy use of a language are in a good position to vent about its shortcomings. Sometimes a language is the best tool for the job despite its many deficiencies, and I'd much rather read these kind of rants by someone who knows the language inside out. I hate PHP more than I hate my own mother, and yet I still chose it for my most recent project. Every programming language has shortcomings, it's just a question of picking the best shortcomings for the job.



Yeah, he even has some sort of disclaimer in his footer

    This site is mostly written by chx, one of the core developers of the PHP-based Drupal project. It's not meant to be a bashing of PHP or its authors.


I hate PHP more than I hate my own mother

I've heard of damning with faint praise, but this is more like faint condemnation...


> Every programming language has shortcomings.

Name a language with more. I'll wait.


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