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I don't see this as a defense, I am seeing it as a way to reach to more programmers, and basic security practices be damned in the process.

I have to wonder: what did these people have to gain if PHP got popular (which it did)? That's an egotistical way of popularizing your language.

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Now do C.

I know right. That's why I'm not doing C anymore, for 10+ years now.

Was Dennis Ritchie egotistical for popularizing C? He would have known all the security flaws in it, right?

Very disagreed with your analogy. By the time those PHP tutorials were written, SQL injection attacks were already known.

So not sure what you're trying to push here but I refuse to participate.

Still to this day you have free-after-use bugs in the Linux kernel, about 20% of all known bugs in the kernel. How is this not comparable?

It is comparable, that's why I'm moving to Rust. Hence I said I don't want to participate simply because I am not defending C either. It played its role and it's time for it to be phased out.

Which MySQL library did Ritchie wrap back in 1972?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27959145

My bad, which version of Linux should Ritchie have been auditing in 1972?

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