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Re:Software in 2014 by josteink on Thursday January 09, 2014 @08:23AM (#7030283)
"haphazardly accumulated features" is not an explanation, it's a subjective point of view.

If you really need it, here's a very good write-up which should cover that in an impressively detailed manner:

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...

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Re:Software in 2014 by xd on Thursday January 09, 2014 @09:26AM (#7030605)
This was hotly debated, by myself included, right here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3820431

He has updated the article over time which is good of him, but much of it is still subjective and from a quick glance there are points that no longer hold true.

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Re:Software in 2014 by Tegran on Thursday January 09, 2014 @01:21PM (#7032127)
Here's one rebuttal to that:

http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/php-is-a-fractal...

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Re:Software in 2014 by josteink on Friday January 10, 2014 @05:32AM (#7035990)
It was a long one, and I'll admit I only skimmed it.

But from a glance, it looks like the one writing the rebuttal didn't really understand the criticism, and is himself 100% captured by the exact mindset which the original article criticized PHP for having.

This guy is the one who will be standing at the door complaining that you just broke his house. He is what is wrong with PHP.

And naturally, however much sense he thinks his argument makes, it will still be wrong. It's in the very nature of this situation.

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