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If PHP is included, it should be colored red ("Unlikely to influence anything in the future, due to remarkably poor design") as well... If the author already classifies Go, JavaScript, or even time-tested FORTRAN and Java into this category, it's all but fair to include PHP. On the other hand, unlike the popular beliefs, the author doesn't consider Perl to be the case here? Anyway, interesting opinion.

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Seems to me that Java is likely to influence things in the future, if for no other reason than because people seem to like creating languages that run in the JVM, and the libraries (if nothing else) then influence the new language.

One of those would need to survive. Kotlin could, conceivably.

Whilst I've worked with older PHP which was indeed awful. The modern stuff is quite OK. PHP has drifted into a decent design recently. I hope that any future language designer will take PHP as a case study of incremental improvement.

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