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The point is that if you're 13 years old, somewhat crafty, and just want to make a website that puts text on dank memes using ImageMagick to impress your friends, PHP and $3/month hosting with a friendly alligator that you can show to your mom to get her to put her CC in without thinking you'll get hauled off by a black helicopter...will get you to done quickly without having to read a foot of O'Reilly books, 20 DigitalOcean tutorials, 57 Wikipedia pages, and 118 StackOverflow answers.
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The point is that if you're 13 years old, somewhat crafty, and just want to make a website that puts text on dank memes using ImageMagick to impress your friends, PHP and $3/month hosting with a friendly alligator that you can show to your mom to get her to put her CC in without thinking you'll get hauled off by a black helicopter...will get you to done quickly without having to read a foot of O'Reilly books, 20 DigitalOcean tutorials, 57 Wikipedia pages, and 118 StackOverflow answers.
Spaghetti PHP on shared hosting written by copy/pasting comments from the PHP docs and SO is a fantastic gateway drug for teens who end up being great developers. I love it.