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Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook? by noduerme on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @02:38PM (#29017261)
I thought the original reason for it was that Zuckerberg didn't want to have the site rewritten by engineers in a language he didn't know. i.e. find a way to scale up this dorm room code without rewriting it.
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Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook? by woodruffw on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @02:54PM (#29017483)
Yeah, that's what I meant by the "initial technical decision." Perhaps "technical and ego driven" would have been more precise :-)
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