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There are valid reasons to not like a language, PHP being the easiest to pick on: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

As for the people using the language, I have inherited a few PHP projects, and without exception, they are a mess. The code quality and readability is usually garbage, simple stuff like tabbing and consistent variable names. SQL Injection vulnerabilities, and XSS issues abound.

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This is exactly the attitude that the author is taking issue with.

Many inexperienced developers use PHP and make a mess. But try to remember that there are also many brilliant engineers at Facebook and other companies using PHP and doing amazing things with it.

By valid reasons, I mean other than the developers, read the link in my post.

You may also appreciate this viewpoint: https://blog.codinghorror.com/php-sucks-but-it-doesnt-matter...

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