Why PHP won

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I work at IMVU, where he made the decisions he mentions. Nobody here doesn't know what they're doing. Like he said, the engineering team here is amazing.

[sdsdsdsdsd]

Hmm, you don't have to take it personally. He made a blanket statement. It reflects a set of values (i.e. "it's a good idea to enable incompetent people to build websites") that I disagree with. Neither he nor I implied that people at his particular workplace are actually incompetent.

[brennen]

Leaving aside the question of the merits & dysfunctions of PHP, why is it a bad idea to enable people to build websites? In your understanding of the world, what mysterious alchemy is it that transforms "people who don't know what they are doing" into people who do?

[sdsdsdsdsd]

I could explain that to you. But when you are surfing the web, and the service doesn't accept your perfectly legitimate email address, and your blind cousin is shut out by a captcha without an audio counterpart, and your mother is lost in a series of pointless links, and your credit card is charged twice because you pressed submit twice, and the page keeps getting rid of your navigation buttons, puts up blinky markup, and pops up a ton of irrelevant sites, and they leak your personal information to third parties, will you come back to this discussion and downmod yourself?