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by redwall_hp 4468 days ago
I should have stopped reading here:

"Most non-PHP developers judge the entire language by bad code snippets 'written' (mostly copied and pasted) by amateurs for PHP 4"

The old "stop hating on the only language I know! It doesn't have flaws, there are just newbies using it!"

There is plenty wrong with PHP, to this day. When people criticize PHP, they're not usually talking about PHP 4. They're talking about 5.4+. There's some seriously lunacy in the core language. Some of it is there for legacy reasons, and some is brand new.

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How about providing some examples that aren't obscure edge cases that are easily avoidable?