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		chc on Sept 27, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP needs to die. What will replace it? Since he never said anything about Ruby on Rails and he was talking about languages rather than web app frameworks, I'm pretty sure he meant Ruby.

BerislavLopac on Sept 29, 2010 | [–]

Actually, PHP is not a programming language. It's a templating language gone bazooka.

zaidf on Sept 29, 2010 | [–]

Comparing use of Ruby to PHP is like comparing C++ to PHP. It makes little sense. We don't write web pages in C++ or Ruby. We do in PHP and RoR.

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