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Re:Ask HN: Why no love for PHP? by EliAndrewC on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @01:40PM (#596274)
I think this comment sums it up nicely: http://blog.ianbicking.org/php-ghetto-comment-11.html

It basically argues that in PHP there's often an easy, insecure way to do something and a verbose, secure way to do it. With regards to SQL injection, Java is the same way; prepared statements are much more verbose and annoying than string concatenation.

Re:Ask HN: Why no love for PHP? by rbanffy on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @07:13PM (#596989)
I regard string concatenation as very annoying in Java.

Actually, just about anything is annoying in Java. I guess I have been spoiled by more modern languages like... Smalltalk/80 or Lisp'56.