• BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      To quote the guy who invented PHP:

      “I don’t know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language […] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.”

      • larvyde@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Yes, PHP was originally meant to be a template language, like handlebars or thymeleaf, but kept on accumulating features along the way…