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sgerrand on April 11, 2012 [–]

Actually Facebook agrees with me so much that they rewrote PHP as a C++ macro called hiphop, and no longer use PHP.

A specious comment - hiphop transforms PHP to optimised C++ and then compiles it.

https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php

scriptproof on April 11, 2012 | [–]

Compilation = converting a language into another. Hiphop is a (two-stages) PHP compiler.

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