> So, if you are looking for good design in a language — PHP is still a disaster, I assure you. PHP is like an unholy blend of Python and JavaScript with Perl

> So, if you are looking for good design in a language — PHP is still a disaster, I assure you. PHP is like an unholy blend of Python and JavaScript with Perl syntax rules. If there's some feature you like in one of these languages, PHP probably has a slightly-confusing variant of it. It has first-class function support (more-or-less), closures, classic OO, dynamic OO, reflection, namespaces, exceptions, auto-resolution of missing classes, generators, iterators, something like eval(), etc.