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by vesinisa 4488 days ago
> It's only awful when used to build anything massivly complex (such as joomla! or drupal...)

Or a Bitcoin exchange
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meritt 4488 days ago
If only Mark Karpeles had simply written mtgox in another language, there's no way he would have lost 750,000 bitcoins.
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72deluxe 4488 days ago
Wouldn't he have just recreated the same bug in another language? I think you are confusing a bug in implementation/code with the language.
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vidarh 4488 days ago
I believe you're missing the dripping sarcasm.
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