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by jmcgough 4688 days ago
When is "then"? I'm a rubyist, but I worked with PHP for a year and was impressed with how far the language has come in the last decade. Before PHP5 (2004ish), the language wasn't really even object oriented. In the last few years, PHP has gotten garbage collection, namespacing, native JSON support and others.

I really dislike PHP as a language, but it's not fair to call it shit. The language is maturing.