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by gngeal 4572 days ago
> You're making the mistake of conflating PHP the language with Rails the Framework.

I've heard someone call PHP "the C web framework". I thought it was fitting, and in addition, it seemed that even as a C web framework, it was a failure.

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PHP may have some rather serious flaws but it is far from a failure and runs on a huge majority of the web.
"but it is far from a failure"

CS-wise (and design-wise), it's very much a failure. It's a market success, though - just like VHS was, many years ago. ;-)

Agree that it has flaws, agree that it not a failure, but what do you mean "runs on a large majority of the web"?
PHP the C web framework? PHP a failure? Lol!
"Lol!"

I think you're in the wrong place. Reddit is this way.