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Is someone forcing you to use PHP? If you don't like it, don't use it. If you don't like the culture, then by all means, either try to improve it or don't participate in it. Luckily, the universe of software is large enough that you need never touch PHP if you don't want to. PHP is just a tool, one which many developers find useful, and which yes supports a lot of shitty code. Go make an app in Django or Rails or... whatever. The world is your oyster.

But the idea that it should be 'eradicated' is just plain silly. If we eradicated every language some random purist found offensive we'd be left coding in raw binary.

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PHP, django, rails you really like bloated software that have conceptual flaws and constant security advisories? http://cve.mitre.org/data/refs/refmap/source-MLIST.html

And yes I am forced to use PHP or any cited bullshitware because all these coders are intoxicating my customers with false hope, and false expectations that after close lookups (especially the Total Cost of Ownership including maintaining) systematically fail to deliver what was promised.

Would you listen to someone who says coding correctly takes time but maintaining will be easy or the enthusiasts that are saying I have a framework that "works" (but is not) and I can deliver in no time? (disregarding the actual quality of the code they are using, or the operational complexity (thus additional recurring costs), or ignoring the big O notations). Advocates of BSware don't care about the details. But the devil lies in the details.

There is no shortcut for being a decent programmer; you have to have the control over everything.

I say it loud and clear: because of their culture some language and tools turn decent smart people into incompetent frauds that contaminate the work of every developers. Incompetency is a cancer that contaminates the economy and costs an awful lots of bucks.

By all means then... because we are all thoroughly tired of bloat, conceptual flaws and security issues in our code... enlighten we simple peons as to the language we should rather be writing our web apps in.

And you can't say C, because PHP is already a wrapper for C, and of course PHP is terrible.

"conceptual flaws", "Total Cost of Ownership", "operational complexity", "big O notations", "But the devil lies in the details".

I'm sorry, but that sounds like a lot of vague buzzwordy hand-waving and my bullshit meter is ringing.

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