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I don't disagree, but PHP is not the canonical reference for code which cannot be understood, that would be Perl.

PHP is the canonical reference for code which can be understood but not interpreted, because you don't know the values of various obscure global flags.

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See Perl seems easy to read to me, and functions work like I expect, whereas PHP has a bunch of functions where variable order is not consistent.

R isn't horrible, and if you are in the repl, you can print any function's code you can access, which is awesome.

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