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What the developers of PHP were considering for their syntax. Just a reminder that the most hated programming language could have been so much worse. (en.wikipedia.org)

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

Lerdorf noting in retrospect: "I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way."

I don't know how to stop it

Helpless, Lerdof continued on. Never knowing the pain he was inflicting upon the future generations of web developers.