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Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by fleitz on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:09PM (#3825181)
PHP is just an example of worse is better (whose key is simplicity of implementation), because PHP is easy to get started with things get built in it. Then you have a lifetime of maintenance hacking around all the bad decisions at the start because of it.

Comparing the rails app config system to PHP.INI, ini_set, .htaccess and the million other ways to configure PHP and considering the app config system to be a rube goldberg machine is really unjustified, the very configuration of PHP itself pretty much non-deterministic.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

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Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by josegonzalez on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:56PM (#3825365)
Don't use all those ways of configuring PHP. php.ini works just fine, and if you truly need a different configuration for a specific application, a bootstrap file will serve to override the php.ini where necessary. Done.
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