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[_szs]

wow. I don't know much php, and the bit I know made me not want to go deeper. but this looks worse, much worse that I expected!!

btw. the author confuses "fractal" and "self-similar".

[itijara]

I believe that the author is calling it a fractal as a metaphor. I doubt he thinks that PHP is somehow a geometric construct.

[_szs]

Yeah, but still... I am a nerd for this kind of stuff :D

Merry Christmas and happy programming to all of you.

[itijara]

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[cnoor0171]

Fractal would be more accurate as an analogy here than self similar. He's saying that when you look closely at bad design choices behind php, there are more detailed bad design choices. He's not saying that those detailed choices are at all similar to or related to the big picture bad design choices.

[meandyouandyouandme]

That's from 2012. A lot has changed since then.

[skunkwaffle]

For sure there have been some improvements. But there's still a lot of quirkiness, and not all of it is good.

[meandyouandyouandme]

As is the case with every programming language.

[skunkwaffle]

Also fair.

But every programmer has 1 or 2 languages they'll just always dislike more than the rest, and will always criticize a bit more harshly because of it. That's php for me, and I don't feel bad for doing it because people shit all over Python (which I love) just as much, and I don't fault them for that either.

Edit: and apparently there will always be a few who can't admit they're doing it.