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		programminggeek on May 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: These are things in PHP which make me sad Before everyone goes all "why don't you switch to language X or platform Y or lisp variant Z" I just want to say good job on this. These all seem to be sane critiques of PHP without being all doomsday world-ending inflamatory. Kudos. Also, I think that this is another example of how hard it is to build up a large and widely-used language/framework without having lots of warts. Especially since PHP wasn't originally designed with the intention of powering everything from a simple blog/cms to facebook.

iphoneedbot on May 27, 2011 [–]

yeah.. php really has gotten a bad rap.. nearing ASP proportions

lmz on May 27, 2011 | [–]

By ASP you mean VBScript, right? Because ASP pages can be written in JScript as well, and I remember JScript was quite nice.

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