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Old 29th April 2009
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Originally Posted by indienick View Post
Perl was the first language I learned, and it has its place as a parsing language, but PHP - given its roots - is just needlessly messy, IMO.
When you consider PHPs history and user base, then look at what happened to HTML over the years, and considering PHPs roots, what makes you think it wouldn't be so 'needlessly messy' in the first place?

I would be shocked if it wasn't.... (But hey, there's always hope for PHP7 hehe)
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