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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by ehutch79 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:22AM (#37675992)
Yes.

This is why PHP got such a bad reputation. A lot of new developers where copy and pasting quick example code from stack overflow, or code from other new developers who only kind of knew what they were doing.

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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by digging on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:34AM (#37676192)
> This is why PHP got such a bad reputation.

I don't think that's the only reason, lol.

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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by pc86 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @12:02PM (#37676711)
What? SO launched in 2008 and PHP had a bad reputation prior to that.
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by ehutch79 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @12:24PM (#37677058)
You're right, prior to that it was random forums,
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by vaylian on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:21PM (#37679868)
and the comment section in the php.net documentation.
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:13PM (#37679758)
The point stands, it just wasn't SO they were getting the bad information from prior to 2008.
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