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by Otto42 5350 days ago
So, when you have a problem with the system, then to find the bug you have to look in three or four places instead of one.
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By that reasoning, we should just code a whole site in a single PHP page that handles both the backend processing and the display layer and generation of HTML.

It's not about decreasing the number of files (to look into to find bugs), it's about organizing the code into logical pieces that are more manageable.