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Anyone that have read Wordpress' source code should not be surprised that it is the most exploited piece of software on the web.

It was not created by programmers. It was created by web designers (hence its great visual design).

Wordpress was probably the only company that has migrated from Ruby to PHP (when they purchased Gravatar).

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Not just one. Derek Sivers: "I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn’t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom."

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...

"Wordpress was probably the only company that has migrated from Ruby to PHP"

This is just childish. Different tools and languages have different uses. End of story. Ruby isn't better than PHP, PHP isn't better than Ruby - That's like saying a screwdriver is better than a saw - It depends what you're trying to accomplish with the tool.

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