In conclusion: PHP is a terrible language and promotes terrible coding standards and if you use it you deserve all the pwnage you'll get.pic.twitter.com/ooYaqKG7aB
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This isn't about dynamic typing. Python is dynamically typed and doesn't have this problem. This is about PHP being horrible.
Python can be horrible as well, ever dealt with 1 byte variables over a serial line? struct.unpack() horror?
Not sure what you're referring to. struct.unpack is cumbersome for large structured but there are better frameworks for that.
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