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by jarebear6expepj 461 days ago
Your questions are programming language agnostic-- where did your PHP angst come in? And are there specific things in PHP that are problematic and avoidable by using a different Turing complete language?
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PHP has grown up but in its wild youth was notorious for such gems as mysql_escape_string vs mysql_real_escape_string, rather than proper parameterization

It's not so much about Turing as it is libraries and patterns

After all, as I understand it this very issue was caused by escaping SQL rather than parameterizing it