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Re:PHP 7 Released by Joeri on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @07:53AM (#10662618)
The library is C's fault. PHP is basically a scripting language around the standard C library. It's what makes it the fastest non-JIT scripting language, but also what makes it so inconsistent.
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Re:PHP 7 Released by Retra on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @11:57AM (#10664095)
It's not really a matter of fault. If being a wrapper around C is a problem, it's a problem PHP designers made, for better or worse. That's not C's fault.
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Re:PHP 7 Released by theseoafs on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @03:27PM (#10665566)
So are Lua and Python and Ruby, but they're not "inconsistent".
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Re:PHP 7 Released by jack9 on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @06:09PM (#10666579)
That's a matter of perspective. Inconsistency is not objective and Lua has PLENTY of warts (46 max upvalues?)
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