On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 12:19:31 +1000
"James A. Donald"
Most languages, especially Lisp and C++ provide support for very clever ways of programming, clever ways of dealing with the kind of almost-the-same-but-slightly-different feature that in PHP leads to massive code duplication.
there - obviously - are php libraries, and the language has support for class inheritance. I don't care for php one way or another but your comment is technically nonsense.
PHP does not provide the kind of tools that a clever programmer makes heavy use of. Which is part of the reason you find that in a big PHP the same change has to be made in a hundred different places, in a hundred pieces of almost-but-not-quite identical code.
bullshit
PHP tends to be written by stupid people, because clever people notice the lack of certain features, tools, idioms more than stupid people, and tend to be the people that make heavy use of those features, tools, and idioms.