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by wendroid 6000 days ago
PHP encourages shitty code because it is already shitty code in a shitty language. It's the broken windows effect. All you need to know is from Rasmus himself

"There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming."

see also his other gems http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf
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encoderer 6000 days ago
The broken window effect? Really?

PHP is far from my favorite language but "language wars" and comments like yours that lead to them are 100% brain dead. Void of original thought.

I see a little irony in people like you cursing PHP as unnecessary and ugly when you are spending your time spewing comments with those same traits.

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wendroid 5999 days ago
I was a professional programmer in PHP for just under 10 years so I'm not just bandwagon jumping. I don't get paid by yahoo to post here so I'm free to be as sloppy as I like.
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