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PHP was designed by people who neither knew, nor cared what the hell they were doing, but knew they wanted something to do what they wanted to do. In that sense you cannot blame PHP for being a huge wasteland of terrible design just as you cannot blame a blind man for not being a great painter.

That being said, thank you for documenting why nobody should ever seriously use this language unless it's absolutely necessary.



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