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Re:Postgres 11 – A First Look by phaer on Saturday September 22, 2018 @05:53AM (#18045311)
Yes, but the proportions between "bad", lets rather call them inexperienced, "coders" and experienced coders varies strongly in different ecosystems.

PHP and JavaScript both democratized programming, as BASIC did years before, but that also meant that more tutorials and howtos for PHP were written by people relatively new to programming compared to say howtos on Haskell or C.

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Re:Postgres 11 – A First Look by cookiecaper on Saturday September 22, 2018 @12:46PM (#18046714)
It's an "Eternal September" effect that never really wears off. I'm growing increasingly concerned that this is descending upon Python now. The internet as a whole is a wide enough system that it was able to withstand its Eternal September (though it's arguable that newsgroups weren't), but any specific language ecosystem, I fear for the moment it hits "mainstream".
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