It isn't PHP-bad, but it isn't a great example of clean, orthogonal design. The only generic data structures being maps, arrays/slices, and channels, is not in

It isn't PHP-bad, but it isn't a great example of clean, orthogonal design. The only generic data structures being maps, arrays/slices, and channels, is not indicative of a "conceptionally sound" language. Don't get me wrong, it a great, practical, engineering-oriented 90% solution kind of language; "conceptually sound" seems like computer language theory got involved, and it didn't.