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by ceol 4618 days ago
> PHP is a general purpose programming language.

No no no no no no no. Nonono. No.

It's a web framework and template language built around a handful of C wrappers and awkward database interactions. It can't even represent unsigned 64 bit integers. Any complex math requires you to convert the numbers into strings.

PHP is an advanced template language for HTML.

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> PHP is an advanced template language for HTML.

PHP is a template language for HTML that's prone to CSRF.

Does it matter?