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.

bilb, 11 months ago

Don’t care, it made me violently ill and I will never use it

No disrespect to those who do, including the kbin dev. And the friendica dev! And who could forget Nextcloud.

I simply do not have the fortitude

d0ngt3k, 1 year 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.

dessalines, 3 years ago

Damn… inventing a web server programming language by just winging it.