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There's only so much money you can throw at broken language designs and still expect a reasonable return.

I'll bite. What's broken?

Yeah, I'd be interested too. I code PHP, Ruby, Python, C#, js and all of them have quirks and stuff. But Python and Ruby are almost identical other than some syntax sugar. PHP is PHP. $needle, $haystack gets me everytime. JS is just evil. Fucking hate that language. Dog turd. C# is nice, a bit verbose.

I think he's a troll.

He's a smart guy, a Haskell programmer, and co-author of a pretty great Haskell book.

I don't think he's a troll; it just seems that his opinion of Ruby is influenced by experience in other languages.

If he doesn't want to elucidate his point, its basically trolling, no matter what your experience. Its a line designed to draw a rise out of people - that's it.

Are you suggesting that ruby's design is more broken than PHP's?

More that Facebook's return on the amount of money they've spent on PHP is pretty poor.

Facebook has had the author of jemalloc locked up working on making PHP go faster for a few years now. Surely there's a more productive place to sink that kind of talent.

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