Don't blame the tool user for inconsistencies in the tool. A claw hammer that oc...

Androsynth · on April 20, 2011

The general consensus of this thread is that there are a lot of bad php developers out there that write bad code and this does serious discredit to the language. The example this poster linked to was bad code.

Its not proof the language is bad, its proof the poster is no better than the truly bad programmers who use the language he is trying to make fun of.

paisawalla · on April 20, 2011

In PHP:

  $bool = (08 === 0);
  var_dump($bool);

This prints

  bool(true)

In other words, at the deepest level of identity this language can check, 08 is reported to be equal to 0.

With a language like that, I think it's safe to blame the tool.