unix philosophy

We're all being drilled over and over again to always use mysqli::escape_string, PDO::quote, or preferably prepared statements when escaping user-supplied strings for use in MySQL queries.

Eleven Is Louder: "All over I hear people use the phrase 'UNIX/Linux' when referring to UNIX-style systems.

It is somewhat hilarious to me, as Linux and the surrounding community have, for the most part, left the UNIX philosophy behind."