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Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by kamaal on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:26PM (#3825774)
>>However, for building applications that might get deployed somewhere, or talk to a database in a secure fashion, it's a nightmare.

Facebook, Wikipedia are begging to disagree.

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Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by Legion on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:38PM (#3825806)
No, they aren't.

Quote Adam D'Angelo, former CTO of Facebook: "PHP was out of the question [for building Quora]. Facebook is stuck on that for legacy reasons, not because it's the best choice right now". (source: http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-did-Quora-choo...)

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Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by sgerrand on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @12:01AM (#3825869)
Actually Facebook agrees with me so much that they rewrote PHP as a C++ macro called hiphop, and no longer use PHP.

A specious comment - hiphop transforms PHP to optimised C++ and then compiles it.

https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php

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Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by scriptproof on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @12:32PM (#3828289)
Compilation = converting a language into another. Hiphop is a (two-stages) PHP compiler.
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