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danyet:

I think the only good thing about PHP being my first programming language is that to this day, when learning a new language, I am pleasantly surprised by how logical and feature-rich and generally not-PHP-like they are.

When your standards are set that low, it’s hard to take things like halfway decent language design for granted.

Okay, that might not be a good thing after all.

My personal favorite PHP inconsistency is in search functions. I have to look this up every time I need to check whether something is contained in a string or array, because, well, I’ll let the documentation speak for itself:

int strpos ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, int $offset = 0 ] )

bool in_array ( mixed $needle , array $haystack [, bool $strict = FALSE ] )

For the non-programmers who are still confused, look at the positions of ‘needle’ (the thing being searched for) and ‘haystack’ (the thing being searched within) in the above two functions.