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jpswade on Feb 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: No such thing as “real programming” (2015)

When I started out with PHP (cica 2000) it was just another scripting language to make stuff happen on web pages and it was easier to work with than perl.

In 2003, Rasmus who created PHP said: "I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way".

PHP has since been developed into a fully fledged programming language borrowing many of its traits from Perl, C, C++, Java, Tcl.

Now at PHP7, having two major versions since 2000, I can say with some confidence that PHP is a "real programming" language.

sklogic on Feb 6, 2016 [–]

PHP became a barely passable language only after HHVM was created. Before that it only had totally pathetic implementations.

Edit: do downvoters really think the original PHP implementation was not a pile of crap?!? Amusing!

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