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I'll admit to having written a snarky comment about hating PHP. I believe I added the proper context in saying that I was thrown into a legacy application with no experience in the language and debugging something that started as open source and had been forked and customized. It was the perfect storm of terribleness and the language was secondary to that.
But on behalf of my past self, I apologize. It's true that certain languages and tools get treated like red headed step children in this industry. Those languages and tools still exist and it does no one any good to marginalize them and the people who work on them.
Your tweet in this post is spot on. Legacy code is complex and we need to stop using current assumptions to judge past actions.
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I'll admit to having written a snarky comment about hating PHP. I believe I added the proper context in saying that I was thrown into a legacy application with no experience in the language and debugging something that started as open source and had been forked and customized. It was the perfect storm of terribleness and the language was secondary to that.
But on behalf of my past self, I apologize. It's true that certain languages and tools get treated like red headed step children in this industry. Those languages and tools still exist and it does no one any good to marginalize them and the people who work on them.
Your tweet in this post is spot on. Legacy code is complex and we need to stop using current assumptions to judge past actions.