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by Joeboy 5191 days ago
> Please give me one concrete example what is wrong with a blog running on PHP. Or a small store? How is the END result differ between say Magento or something running on Django? Could you tell the difference? No, you could not.

I think I could, pretty often at least:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=wordpress+%22hacked+by%22
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ceejayoz 5190 days ago
Right, because no other language is hackable.

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...

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Spoom 5190 days ago
Should languages be required to ensure the security of the code produced for them?

IMHO this is more of a complaint about the security of Wordpress, not the PHP core. People love to bring up phpBB or Wordpress in these discussions, but there are many, many more systems using large-scale PHP about whose security you just don't hear, because they are coded by professionals who know how to produce secure code in PHP.

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