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Sherif Ramadan
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Sherif Ramadan writes Programming Languages, a personal blog at sheriframadan.com about programming. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Test Drive PHP 5.5: A Sneak Peek”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for the 2012 PHP RFC vote on the 'finally' keyword, which would help avoid repetitive code and handle exceptions. The thread only discusses the RFC and its use cases.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Test Drive PHP 5.5: A Sneak Peek2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-26
What Hacker News says?
This is an exciting step forward for being able to prevent repetitious code and handle exceptions more elegantly. More excitement will be had when we actually see this implemented in an upcoming version. In case you are wondering why this link goes to the bottom of the page, the important bit is: 2012/08/13 Xinchen Hui: Close voting, RFC win the voting The RFC is a bit dry and does explain some use cases, however, G…
Comment linking /2012/08/finally-keyword-in-php/
on “PHP finally gets finally”Submitted Test Drive PHP 5.5: A Sneak Peak as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Chat With Joel Spolsky on Why StackOverflow Works as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Closer Look Into PHP Arrays: What You Don’t See as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is PHP Finally Getting 'finally'? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Test Drive PHP 5.5: A Sneak Peek as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building A Data Center: What It Takes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Analytics with PHP and Google Visualization: Made Simple as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP OOP: A Look At PHP Objects Under The Hood as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whats coming up in PHP 5.5 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamic Types and PHP Made Simple – With Examples In C as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Renewable Energy: You Are Being Lied To as a story · 1 points
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