PHP

Same excuse that applies to every other shitty web technology.

>>59760117
HAHAHAHA what?!!

>>59760117
It's absolutely fine for its intended purpose.

Remember PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page tools. That's what it's made for and it works great for that.

Post more so we can spend all spring making fun of unruly codebases.

>>59760260
>for its intended purpose
Parody? Comedy? That part where they use a float to calculate a string length is the best.

>>59760305
>>59760117
Yes, also it's important to post shit from 2007 or before. It adds real validation to your shilling.

It's free to use, unlike ColdFusion

>>59760117
It doesnt even do an adequate job of making my personal home page dynamic

its garbage tier.

It became popular because it was easy to set up hosting for many small scale users. When the pages are not being loaded there's nothing running. Users just drop code and it's ready to go. WordPress also boosted it's popularity.

Ease of use beats idealism once again :<

why did they add "i" after mysql, fucking up all my code (easily resolved but still)

>>59760117
PHP was never meant to be secure, or even enterprise type it was a nicer syntax to do something you can do with BASH.

It's the ultimate "just works" language. Just an example I did a simple CRUD application for a customer in ONE hour that's it ONE hour to my emacs to production server. Try that in Java for example.
>inb4: Yes the application was really shitty and buggy, but In the end of the day I got a new customer and cash in my pocket. And yes, I fixed the most common securities holes

>>59760117
Shit like this is why I use Ruby.

>>59760689

yes it does

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