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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Stop comparing programming languages

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PHP is old

Same age as Ruby, Java and JavaScript, but younger than Python, C, and C++. 😛

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I'm guessing they meant "old" as in "no one uses it anymore, it's dead"

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile PHP quietly runs 80% of the internet by being used for WordPress.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don’t tell my bosses that. Or the PHP community as a whole for that matter. Then I might have to get a real job.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

I'm sorry. If you exclude the millions of sites using it, it is virtually unused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The year they both came out (1995) I was coding in Visual Basic 3. Ack.