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lnanek2 on March 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The new PHP

I realize the PHP API is a mess compared to highly curated and standardized offerings like Java, but growing up with it, it was very like C standard lib and other things of the time. I could often even guess functions without looking them up even though they had weird names and abbreviations.

eropple on March 4, 2014 [–]

...and you could guess wrong (because consistency is for suckers) and have things blow up in entertaining ways.

That being sort of the problem.

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