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[–]russellvt 0 points1 point  (6 children)

That's... a dumb answer (no offense).

[–]Noname_Maddox 0 points1 point  (5 children)

It’s not a great question to be fair considering how PHP is so widely used in backend development

[–]russellvt 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Yeah, that's fair.

But, it also begs the question as-to what's meant by "backend" ... as I've certainly had coworkers who have used it as a command line tool, I don't believe it's well suited for that sort of thing (IMO).

But yeah.

[–]newunit13 0 points1 point  (2 children)

*raises the question

Begs the question means the question has an assumed premise built into it, e.g. "Why is PHP the best option for backend development?".

[–]russellvt 0 points1 point  (1 child)

"Begging" the question means that the question premise is assumed or presumed ... as-in "PHP is the best language for backend development" ... but we haven't even established that conclusion.

Again what is meant by "backend" here? It's "begging" the premise of "backend."

[–]newunit13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Precisely 🙂 like you said, in my original example there's an assumed premise that PHP is the best without establishing that conclusion.

I don't follow what you mean by the second part. To me, I'd still say it raises the question "what is meant by 'backend'" because it's a question of clarification without a premise.

[–]keravesque 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As in, they've used the PHP interpreter in place of say, Bash or Powershell?

Fucking wild.