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There is an argument for judging programming languages based on the worst code possible within the language, due to the fact that with a wide enough ecosystem, you will regularly encounter lots of stuff in the median between that and your “just don’t do that” standard.

This is one of the reasons I love Go: the worst code possible in it is still pretty readable.

The worst code possible in PHP is scattered across thousands of files corresponding to individual routes, and isn’t indented at all.




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