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by acdha 1586 days ago
You could still write bad code, of course, but deploying mod_php sure was easy. People could still write bad code (thinking here of someone who processed a database join in a foreach loop rather than learning how to use a WHERE constraint) but I do miss that level of install simplicity, at least until I remember what it was like dealing with incompatible versions or reconciling configuration in multiple places.