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Comment by GiorgioG | Hacker News Reader

Sorry, I don't buy it, PHP was complete and utter garbage from a security standpoint at the time:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-74/P...

Sure, your experience sucked. But by all means let's continue to look down our noses at a programming language based on mistakes made 20 years ago.

I have plenty of other issues with PHP that haven't been addressed in 20 years. There are plenty of other better tools out there. You don't have to choose them, and I don't have to choose PHP.

Sure, of course you don't.

But when the only issues you can actually name are 20 years old and based on one specific implementation, rather than PHP as a language, it doesn't reflect poorly on PHP. It reflects poorly on your critical thinking skills—or, at the very least, your ability to persuasively argue.

I don't have to enumerate all of PHP's shortcomings to justify my position.

No one's asking you to.

But you call it out as "garbage", claim that you—personally—have "plenty of other issues" besides the ancient history you specifically cited, but do not elaborate and expect us to just take your word for it.

You're asking us to value your low opinion of it, but you're not giving us any good reason to do so.

Look, it's ok - you guys love PHP and I'm sure it has some merits. I still have my same old opinion of it. Just like I can't change a bunch of people's opinion on C#/.NET because it's from Micro$oft. We can agree to disagree.

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