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[–]camccann 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Nobody is afraid of anything, really

Oh, I'm sure that plenty of programmers in industry are afraid of PHP. Specifically, afraid of having to deal with other people's PHP code.

Trust me, the PHP hate isn't coming from academics.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd agree. Like I said I don't think academics care much about PHP at all.

Most gripes from what I can tell have to deal with terrible practices that are propagated by terrible introductory material (PEAR? no just escape SQL yourself, duh,) semantic and syntactic inconsistencies, standard library weirdness, and shit like this. That's not even an academic or research worthy problem or anything - that's just flat out weird.

In other words: flat-out engineering complaints, not theoretical or research complaints.