I'm not saying those parts aren't hacked together, they most certainly are! Despite being hacked together, they still retain some usefulness and purpose though. But it's use isn't primarily a lambda anyway, just a callback generated anonymously.

They are right, and they are wrong. I should say the arrogance costs them any respect I had for their view. PHP 4 and 5 changed a good bit, sure. But in the end they were doing us a favor, if only our web hosts would implement the new versions more quickly. I can't claim to have used Python, because I don't use it. But I've seen a good many people complain of its major version breakages, and even minor version breakages. By and large, I don't hear this with PHP nearly so often.

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