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Re:Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to sta... by scorpion032 on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @11:09AM (#2466902)
Rather, PHP.

To be fair, it is actually fairly popular, thats why.

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Re:Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to sta... by cemerick on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @11:12AM (#2466910)
We just got done hearing about how PHP's early years included "official" abstention from frameworky things (http://codefury.net/2011/04/why-php-was-a-ghetto/). PHP "won" because of distribution, just like Javascript is "winning" now.
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