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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by craigmcnamara on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:04PM (#10509746)
Um, I'm working on a PHP codebase at the moment. I hate the PHP standard library. It's awful and awkward, but my job is to make shit work, so I do, even if I hate every minute of it.
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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by anonyfox on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:33PM (#10509943)
So much this. Plus, we have certified CentOS servers that are only allowed to run 5.4 for the next years to come. Not to mention that the syntax and stdlib are a nightmare.

Thank god, we convinced our bosses to rewrite our legacy systems in elixir, since ~10years of iterative php progress grinded to a halt with lasagna layers of spaghetti code of homegrown-everything. Unmaintainable now, but the feature request keep coming in, and will do for years to come.

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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by sacado2 on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @05:45PM (#10510358)
Lucky you, I'm stuck with 5.3, because of old CentOS too.
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