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Why not? It's your fault, if you don't revisit PHP. A lot has changed since PHP3 days. The same goes for MySQL. Yet there are a lot of ill-informed haters. But to each their own.

PHP is the dynamic language cousin of C/C++. PHP7 and HHVM are both great and fast.

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>It's your fault, if you don't revisit PHP. A lot has changed since PHP3 days.

Wow. You make a lot of assumptions. I have been using Php until quite recently. I left it at 5.6. I know about 7. But that it is getting additions does not compensate for the fact that the core remains rotten, and is still as dangerous and weird as ever.

It does not get much worse than this

https://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp/comments/41fqib/it_is_so_sim...

While I'm not particularly keen on revisiting PHP, given the bad taste it left me with, I can believe the language has changed for the better, however programming cultures, like all cultures, are way more inertia-prone, and I'm really sceptical about whether the duct tape mentality I've known PHP devs to exhibit has gone away

Duct-tape mentality remains. Just poke around the mailing list.

That's what I suspected. That's why I steer clear of PHP codebases

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