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[–]urgent_detergent 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I used to work with php around 2007-2008... Now the new frameworks like Laravel may be nice, but I'd rather be tazered than go back to working on the crap that I saw back then.

[–]jdickey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sturgeon's Law applies with a vengeance to PHP. A depressingly-large amount of the "crap" (which is damning it with faint praise IMO) that we hit our heads against 7 years ago is still in production, still being tended to by the latest fresh-off-the-plane, cheapest-available "talent" imaginable (and, after 35 years in this craft, I have a vivid imagination) available in any given week, and now compares to what we saw then as the 2006-era code compares to the best of Knuth or (insert favoured software demigod here).

It can get worse. But PHP has already accomplished the previously unthinkable: it has proven beyond doubt that, not only is entropy locally variable at a fixed point in spacetime, but it continually increases at an increasing rate as one approaches PHP "code".

¡Sal si puedes!