# Taking PHP Seriously - Slack Engineering

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## What Jamie wrote

PHP takes a lot of heat from developers that it doesn't deserve. I like to refer to PHP as "The People's Language". Wikipedia runs on PHP. WordPress is PHP. There are probably more lines of PHP code running the web than any other language. Yet many programmers disparage it. The truth is there is a lot of bad PHP code out there, sure. But that is as much about the volume of code than anything else. You can write good things in any language, and bad things in any language.

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