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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:43:19 -0700
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On 06/10/2014 01:38 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
>  Chris Angelico wrote:
>#
>> Yeah. As soon as you take on board a hard-and-fast rule, you open
>> yourself up to stupid cases where the rule ought to have been broken.
>> I don't know a single piece of programming advice which, if taken as
>> an inviolate rule, doesn't at some point cause suboptimal code.
>
> How about, "Don't use PHP"?

Sounds like the exception that proves the rule!  ;)

--
~Ethan~