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		_3u10 on March 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The new PHP Oh, did you mean PHP the language? The webserver? The FastCGI server? The runtime? PHP starts as a fucking mess and gets worse. Maybe once the developers figure out what it is I'll take a look but yeah it's pretty much the developers taking standard features from other languages and fucking them up just like they did yesteryear. Closures with a use block... even in C you don't have to do that... it's a joke and a mess... How is it that a 44 year old language has better features and less cruft than one 15 years old? Does it have a ==== operator yet?

KingMob on March 4, 2014 [–]

Yeah, the functional programming side of PHP is ugly as sin.

Forgot to add your latest variable to the use block? No "closing over" for you.

What's that? All array function are prefixed with "array_"... except for the old ones which aren't, making it both verbose and confusing.

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