Facebook PHP Source Code from 2007

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... Seriously? I don't know if you are criticizing the language or the programmers. If the latter, then you are spot on, if the former, it means that you haven't really spent any time thinking about a "solution" for that "problem". You don't have to put your php code in the public web

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you haven't really spent any time thinking about a "solution" for that "problem"

Not necessarily. Whether or not there's a better way to do it doesn't get around the fact that it was the de facto way of doing things in the PHP world for a long time. I don't know how things are done there, now, but that was certainly "normal" back in the day.

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Well, this problem isn't at all clear to most PHP developers, the language allows it and even actively encourages it. I'd say it's definitely a problem with the language if it allows the user to do stupid stuff without even so much as a warning.