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by LocalMan 2892 days ago
For a real software developer, PHP is a horrible language. And Javascript is almost as bad.

The software tools to help you build and deploy are also a painful mess. You'll have to test on multiple browsers running on multiple operating systems.

It's just a matter of a week or so of overcoming the cultural shock. But you'll have to schedule it in.

Paul Graham says to do it all in Lisp. Most people don't.