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brendoncrawford on Aug 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Like PHP

>Either you like both or you don’t like either, there is no claim you can make about PHP that can’t be made about C as well

Except that PHP is terrible for systems programming?

j_col on Aug 10, 2011 [–]

And PHP has super-aggressive garbage collection and C has none. And C compiles to machine code and PHP compiles to optcode. And...wait a second, why are we comparing this two unrelated technologies again?

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