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by jack9 3534 days ago
> 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.
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combatentropy 3534 days ago
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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