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[โ€“] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To quote the guy who invented PHP:

"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."

[โ€“] larvyde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, PHP was originally meant to be a template language, like handlebars or thymeleaf, but kept on accumulating features along the way...