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Re:High Quality PHP by ThomPete on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @01:10PM (#6960409)
Of course it is otherwise PHP wouldn't have been so popular as it is even for more complex solutions.
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Re:High Quality PHP by eropple on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @02:08PM (#6960666)
That doesn't follow. Loads of software is written with inferior and suboptimal tools for all manner of reasons. Unix was first written in PDP assembler. That doesn't mean it was a good idea, it means it was done.

Popularity is a bad, bad metric of a tool's quality.

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Re:High Quality PHP by ThomPete on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @02:48PM (#6960834)
It means it was a good enough idea and apparently a strong enough tool.

Yours or mine definition of quality is of no importance to this discussion.

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