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PHP is to the web world what Visual Basic was to the desktop.

Anyone can create a program with it, cheaply and easily. You end up with a lot of terrible code this way.

And as the years went on, the products matured into something decent that you COULD write recent code in, but it usually didn’t happen.

It’s a good sign that a project will be a terrible mess if it’s in PHP or VB, but a delightful surprise when it isn’t.




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