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Aug 29, 2018 at 08:14
An underrated property of PHP: it strongly pushes you towards stateless code that leverages am external DB:
Good thing in PHP nobody talks about
Good thing in PHP nobody talks about
Do you know what I like about PHP? It is designed to die after execution. You should not fear code duplication, or bad formatting of code, of bad variables naming - mentioned artefacts of code smell are bad, but are nowhere close to statefulness in terms of contaminating your code.

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