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Comment by GauntletWizard

Yes, people have this as their autoreply. There are real, obviously-wrong things about PHP that the PHP community rejected and stated as "Design Requirements". Things like `mysql_real_escape_string` and `T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM` are real warts that are easy to talk about and research; Many people decided "This language merits no further discussion" from those alone and they're not wrong. PHP had great documentation... in the comments of their docsite. The fact that the comments were not integrated into the documentation and marked as resolved was a real detriment. Important caveats and ways to shoot yourself in the foot (including major security risks and features!) were only documented through comments that could fall off the frontpage at any moment.

PHP is a joke language. It's most major usage is a joke company. Making jokes about it is apt.

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