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		scorpion032 on April 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs... Rather, PHP. To be fair, it is actually fairly popular, thats why.

cemerick on April 20, 2011 [–]

We just got done hearing about how PHP's early years included "official" abstention from frameworky things (http://codefury.net/2011/04/why-php-was-a-ghetto/). PHP "won" because of distribution, just like Javascript is "winning" now.

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