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wdewind on Nov 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Source code of Polish electoral voting system?

I feel like you're arguing against a strawman that I don't think secure applications can be written in PHP. I don't think that.

Edit: put another way: if you are starting from scratch and your main focus is security, why would you use PHP?

sarciszewski on Nov 19, 2014 [–]

Familiarity. I know its quirks inside out and therefore know which mistakes not to do. If you point me to Python and say "build a secure web app," I'm going to need to spend a lot of time researching.

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