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by Sohcahtoa82 110 days ago
Every language has foot-guns of some sort. The difference is how easy it is to accidentally pull the trigger.

PHP makes it easy.
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radium3d 103 days ago
Back in the day people were all about languages like C that made it incredibly easy too.
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Sohcahtoa82 103 days ago
We didn't have anything better unless you wanted to take a massive performance hit and/or lose a ton of flexibility and capability.
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