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I find it laughable that they’re arguing this from the "don’t abuse exceptions as control flow" angle considering that PHP 5.3 introduced goto.

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Oh, great, another way for the rails nazies here at work to make fun of php... -_-U

PHP is like legos or loxblox, mmmkay? And I'm not saying legos aren't awesome, or that you can't build a house out of it. Absolutely you can.

Yeah, I know. But working on a wood statue with a humble knife should not be an excuse for the chainsaw guy to call you a dumb bastard for not be doing the statue with the chainsaw, "like proper men should do". Yes, the quoted phrase was actually heard on my office. Go figure...

( ...and I don't have anything against ruby. I'm learning rails. www.railsforzombies.com is great. In fact, my php is made on cakephp and lithium, which are pretty similar to rails... )

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