Honestly I'm amazed that even here on hackernews PHP gets so much hating over meaningless things. I mean, hating PHP for copying Java OO model in 2004? Com'on.

Honestly I'm amazed that even here on hackernews PHP gets so much hating over meaningless things. I mean, hating PHP for copying Java OO model in 2004? Com'on... It's not like PHP ever wanted to be a fancy language. EDIT: Apparently PHP5 was released in 2004, not 2003. EDIT2: One thing PHP got right over Java: type-hinted parameters are not nullable by default. NullPointerException anyone?