Please tell me this is a joke

Please tell me this is a joke

Posted Aug 27, 2013 1:59 UTC (Tue) by(guest, #56129)Parent article: Garfield: A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution

$factor = 3 $triple = array_map(function($elm) use ($factor) { return $elm * $factor; }, $array);

val factor = 3 val triple = array map (_ * factor)

my $factor = 3; my $triple = map { $_ * $factor } @array

factor = 3 triple = [ elm * factor for elm in array ] # or map(lambda x: x * factor, array)

Seriously? Let's take a look at a few other languages: Scala:Perl 5:Python:They couldn't have fucked it up more if they tried, and everybody knows that the rest of PHP is just as broken. And yet this guy does as if PHP were the best thing since sliced bread, it's downright repulsive.