• Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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      11 days ago

      Yeah, that’s definitely better than the recursive backronym. It’s still not good though! Apparently the PHP people just aren’t great at naming their language, many such cases!

      • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        The language, the standard library functions, the fucking core platform version numbering system, and so on and so forth zizek-theory

        It’s like I always tell the junior devs – there are only two hard things about programming: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.