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		bawolff on Oct 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 2020's fastest-rising tech jobs? Programming langu... Well register_globals was a kind of uniquely php thing, but that's been gone for ages at this point. I generally agree though that lots of the hate for php is a bit over the top.

megous on Oct 31, 2020 [–]

Auto-escaping every GET/POST input at input time was quite something. Also arrays being pass by value is a lot of fun to this day:

$a = [1]; $b = $a; $b[] = 3; var_export($a);

And that you could pass by ref at call time to any function. That was also quite unique.

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