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and people wonder why we say PHP is a meme (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To quote the guy who invented PHP:

"I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, PHP was originally meant to be a template language, like handlebars or thymeleaf, but kept on accumulating features along the way...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They didn't think about which order ternaries should compute in when they coded the php interpreter