7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby

It is comments like this which make me dislike reading the comments of any article with "php" in the title. Not only is it extremely biased, it is presented without any facts or logic to back it up and should be taken as it is given, an opinion.PHP is an extremely powerful language for building websites and has come along way since it's original release, such as object-orientation, etc. Admittedly, PHP has many flaws, such as poor error handling (for a newcomer, most veterans in this language know them off by hand and actually find them useful) and poor function naming, some are CamelCase, some are under_scored and some are illegiblyalloneword, but every language has flaws. This is really the kind of cool-kid attitude which HN doesn't need, it shows a lack of due thought and that you have little to no experience of the language itself, if you had, your comment would have b...

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