The document discusses PHP and argues that it gets some important things right despite its flaws. It acknowledges criticisms of PHP's unexpected behaviors and inconsistencies but defends PHP's approach to programmer workflow, state, and concurrency. It then introduces Hack, a gradual typing system for PHP that aims to address PHP's issues while preserving its strengths. Hack adds type inference an
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