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Re:Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand by bl4k on Sunday September 05, 2010 @01:56PM (#1664833)
and any good developer can pick up and be proficient in PHP quickly
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Re:Scaling the BBC iPlayer to handle demand by poundy on Sunday September 05, 2010 @04:58PM (#1665160)
which is in my opinion PHP's greatest strength and greatest weakness. Weakness because not-so-good developers think they are good while writing code using register globals, no input validation, no escaping output, etc..
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