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It is the revenge of the Spaghetti Code

Tim Bray has started a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of PHP. One of the arguments surrounding the code is that it is spaghetti code. I am sorry, but I would beg to state that most of the code in the world today is Spaghetti Code. Concepts and initiatives have arisen surrounding moving from procedural code to object-oriented code for well over the last decade. It has been few to rare occasions, which I have heard of a business completely re-engineering every line of procedural code into a brand new object-oriented system. It is a poor argument to exclude a language based on the ability to create spaghetti code. Almost every language has the capacity to be mangled by a poorly skilled programmer as it has the capacity to be dazzling by a great programmer.