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wccrawford on Oct 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP 8: Before and After

By today's standards, old tools are poorly designed. At least, most of them. The one's that have stood the test of time aren't the bad ones.

Those old tools still worked, just not as well as modern versions.

ptx on Oct 24, 2020 [–]

Many good and well-designed languages are older than PHP (Scheme is from 1975!), so that cannot be the cause of PHP's poor design.

Rasmus Lerdoff actually gave a great talk on why he created PHP and how it sort of accidentally turned into a programming language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmD1Q4FsXCc

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