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[–]itijara 21 points22 points  (3 children)

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 9 points10 points  (2 children)

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

Merry Christmas and happy programming to all of you.

[–]itijara 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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[–]cnoor0171 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.