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		natbat on April 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP: A fractal of bad design ... and that's why we don't use English as a programming language.

TazeTSchnitzel on April 10, 2012 [–]

Yeah, good programming languages are a lot more like Latin than English. They have rigid grammatical structures and consistent vocabulary.

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