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After all that web programming in C, I was happy to find a language which was actually made for it. I quite like PHP, it's quick and easy to write and much better for web development than C is. I recoded the Apronyms site in it, and of course, I used it to make this website. I like scripting languages in general. I have to admit that some of what I like about PHP, I like because it reminds me of HyperCard.

PHP gets a lot of criticism because it's so easy to mix business logic up with interface code, and, not being compiled, it's easy to make mistakes (such as mistyping a variable name) that won't be automatically caught by anything. Well, all languages allow bad coders to code badly. All languages allow people to make mistakes which they won't see unless they actually test the code (does anyone really think that a compiler is going to find all their bugs?) So I declare that argument null, and I separate my business logic from my interface like a good MVC coder.

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