<story><title>PHP is much better than what you think</title><url>http://fabien.potencier.org/article/64/php-is-much-better-than-what-you-think</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomelders</author><text>Hacker News really doesn&apos;t like PHP. There&apos;s a whole lot of blind prejudice in this thread&lt;p&gt;Arguments against PHP are as futile as arguments in support of PHP. It&apos;s a programming language. The only thing that matters is the person using it. I&apos;m sure Ruby, Node and Go are super duper awesome in a lot of academic ways, but unless we&apos;re talking about awesome things that have been made with them, it&apos;s just blah blah blah boring opinions no one should care about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scotty79</author><text>&amp;#62; Hacker News really doesn&apos;t like PHP.&lt;p&gt;But Y?&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    function Y($F) {
        $func =  function ($f) { return $f($f); };
        return $func(function ($f) use($F) {
                return $F(function ($x) use($f) {
                $ff = $f($f);
                return $ff($x);
            });
        });
    }&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>PHP is much better than what you think</title><url>http://fabien.potencier.org/article/64/php-is-much-better-than-what-you-think</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomelders</author><text>Hacker News really doesn&apos;t like PHP. There&apos;s a whole lot of blind prejudice in this thread&lt;p&gt;Arguments against PHP are as futile as arguments in support of PHP. It&apos;s a programming language. The only thing that matters is the person using it. I&apos;m sure Ruby, Node and Go are super duper awesome in a lot of academic ways, but unless we&apos;re talking about awesome things that have been made with them, it&apos;s just blah blah blah boring opinions no one should care about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hobin</author><text>&quot;The only thing that matters is the person using it.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Well, sure, I guess if you&apos;re really strange, you can be as efficient with Brainfuck as you can be with Python.</text></comment>