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PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse
snydeq writes: Ben Ramsey provides a look at the rise of PHP, the one-time 'silly little project' that has transformed into a Web powerhouse, thanks to flexibility, pragmatism, and a vibrant community of Web devs. "Those early days speak volumes about PHP's impact on Web development. Back then, our options were limited when it came to server-side processing for Web apps. PHP stepped in to fill our need for a tool that would enable us to do dynamic things on the Web. That practical flexibility captured our imaginations, and PHP has since grown up with the Web. Now powering more than 80 percent of the Web, PHP has matured into a scripting language that is especially suited to solve the Web problem. Its unique pedigree tells a story of pragmatism over theory and problem solving over purity."
Sure
If true, you are in the 0.00001% and why are you using such a poorly designed language when there are many better options and no options that are worse?
PHP was written by retards for retards.
reddit.com/r/lolphp is the only lol* board that has new idiocy each week.
Here are some quotes from the head retard Rasmus:
I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code.
I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers. We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all.
There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.
I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I'll just restart apache every 10 requests.
He personifies PHP and that is the reason everyone with a clue laughs at PHP