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		theg2 on Dec 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why PHP continues to thrive in the age of the PaaS PHP may have some rather serious flaws but it is far from a failure and runs on a huge majority of the web.

gngeal on Dec 7, 2013 | [–]

"but it is far from a failure"

CS-wise (and design-wise), it's very much a failure. It's a market success, though - just like VHS was, many years ago. ;-)

cafard on Dec 6, 2013 | [–]

Agree that it has flaws, agree that it not a failure, but what do you mean "runs on a large majority of the web"?

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