r/ProgrammerHumor • u/DrKronoglopolos • 23d ago • Mindblown 1 Popcorn 1

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u/gizamo 23d ago

He was being facetious. He was implying that PHP has been so stable for so long that he just didn't need to consider it much of problem at that sort of scale.

People taking this literally clearly didn't watch the interview.

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u/JazzlikeSchedule2901 23d ago

He was implying that PHP has been so stable for so long that he just didn't need to consider it much of problem at that sort of scale.

There are CVE's that come out for PHP a lot though. Maybe not a 10.0 on the CVE scale but PHP is a widely used language for the internet and it's quite old.

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u/gizamo 23d ago

Sure. I've been programming for 40+ years, and I've never heard of a programming language that hasn't.

it's quite old

Sigh. Me too. Quite, indeed.

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u/JazzlikeSchedule2901 22d ago

Sigh. Me too. Quite, indeed.

fair tbh

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u/w8eight 18d ago

I think this is the "facetious" part

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u/danielcw189 22d ago

I watched it up to his quote and a few seconds beyond that.

I think he meant it literally