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1. user39+j7[view] [source] 2022-12-08 13:16:18
>>TimWol+(OP)
The worst part about PHP is constantly hearing from its detractors, who are often people who haven’t used the language in many years. Haystack needle order, $, fractal of bad design, it just gets old.

The language isn’t perfect but I love working with it, these 8.1 and 8.2 improvements have really made it sweet.

My biggest gripe at the moment is the (very old) behavior of e.g. preg_match() and sort(). You’ve got a small handful of these common functions that operate on their input by reference/in place which is gross. A new version of these would be welcome.

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2. cies+O9[view] [source] 2022-12-08 13:35:17
>>user39+j7
> I love working with it

Great! Keep using it! Ignore us. We (detractors) also had to use it and have since learned (hopefully several) other languages that (not looking at you JS) we like much better... :)

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3. zmxz+oa[view] [source] 2022-12-08 13:38:29
>>cies+O9
What was the motive behind this post? What do you hope to gain?

If it's recognition for learning <insert-language>, how do I provide it to you?

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4. sdiaco+jY[view] [source] 2022-12-08 17:50:54
>>zmxz+oa
Something that is extremely common in the PHP community, and pretty much absent in any other programming community, is this knee-jerk aversion to the idea of learning another language, and this sort of derision to those who do.

Have you consider that people who learn other programming languages are not doing so in order to claim that they're better than PHP programmers, but for their own intrinsic reasons?

It's such a weird, fragile ego situation. Does everyone else have to pretend that PHP is the only language that exists in order to placate your sense of inferiority?

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