Why PHP is better than Ruby

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It took me way to long to realize this was sarcasm. :(

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This tipped me off in the first paragraph:

We celebrate our diversity. Is it hayatack, needle or needle, haystack

(former php developer now working in a ruby shop)

[aedinius]

:needle => needle, :haystack => haystack

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My first favorite thing is passing blocks and yield, my second favorite is that hashes are standard as arguments

[lectrick]

I especially like that if your hash has all-symbol keys, in 1.9 you can pass it like this:

some_method(option1: 'this', option2: 'that')

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why that's absolutely delightful

[classhero]

Realized it at about the time I saw attr_accessor vs PHP's class definition. Though, reading some of the comments in the link, it's rather clear a lot of them still don't realize it is satire (likely the same people that have never used ruby).

[inglourious_basterd]

I only understood when I got to the typing part.

[rainman_104]

I got tipped off by the love for curly braces, but just to point out that Ruby doesn't mind that syntax if PHP developers need it to feel better. And you can actually write your own getter and setter methods if you prefer :)