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by dscrd 4156 days ago
There are worse things than PHP out there :)

Many of the so-called 4th generation languages (i.e. business shits derived from Cobol with DB support bolted in) are totally crazy in this sense. Not only are identifiers often case insensitive, they can also be abbreviated!

Yet people make massive amounts of money with them.