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5 things we should learn from PHP

Personal Home Page came in the time everyone wanted one. In the late 90's, it became most popular language for the web.

PHP is first language for many people. However, who dares to touch another language, rarely looks back and think about PHP as some sort of hacky glue thingie noone likes.

Yet, there are lessons and gems hidden in PHP that are rarely found in other languages. We should learn them.

Sorting list of dictionaries

You have a list of dictionaries and want to sort it based on one of the dictionary keys?

SCM is not artifact repository

Slowly but steadily, at least professional developers agrees that You really need to have a version control system. Yes, one might endlessly argue which one, but it's not really so important (except when it is).

However, I still sense some confusion about what to store there. Because, especially in interpreted language world, one might confuse it with artifact repository. And I hate it.