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chromatic on April 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP: A fractal of bad design

That's an additional magic incantation people have to learn to add to the start of every file. In PHP, that magic incantation is invisible because they never have to type it or even know that it exists.

eevee on April 10, 2012 [–]

I was kidding (and lost the final asterisk); I would lose a lot of faith in Python if that ever worked. :)

Maybe new devs should learn Perl, instead... http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Acme-Everything-1.01/lib/Acme/...

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