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by gouranga 5095 days ago
If someone started again and fixed those issues, would it rock?
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josteink 5095 days ago
Would it rock? Nah. It would merely make it less horrible. It lacks fundamental elegance and it lacks advanced capabilities. Even if fixed, it would still only be clinging to the crown of mediocracy.

But that is fine. Not all languages can or should be mind bending or define its own paradigm. So yeah, if all its problems was somehow in all unlikelyness fixed, it would be fine. It would be fine, but it would in no way "rock".

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flatline3 5095 days ago
It would be a completely different language.
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gouranga 5095 days ago
Yes I realise that
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slurgfest 5095 days ago
In that case, why not just use any of the existing developed alternatives rather than developing an entire new PHP replacement from scratch?
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gouranga 5094 days ago
Because the alternatives suck in different ways.
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