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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Over-Elaborate Shell Scripting
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:02:02 +0000
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> > Allows you to use the same language across the board. A bit
> > unorthodox, but I can see the use of it.
> 
> But 90% of my php is in fact straight HTML.

Ditto - but adding PHP (or another preprocessor utility) to the mix
allows me to write the common sections (header, footer, nav. sidebar)
once, in a separate file, rather than having to update them manually
across every single page every time I need to change something. It's
not *as* useful when it's not happening automagically server-side, but
it still saves a lot of tedium.