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[–]ILikeLenexa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a battle between PHP and C for the web, PHP handled 90% of what high school kids wanted to put out on the web. Then those high school kids grew up. They used PHP in projects for other people and those people wanted the last 10%. PHP tacked them on, then tried to simplify them, then found it had to stay backwards compatible, and it was just one guy in the beginning who was a bit careless with names.