Agreed. Even if these two pieces of code might accomplish the same thing, at least the Python version doesn't make me want to stab myself in face whenever I wri

Agreed. Even if these two pieces of code might accomplish the same thing, at least the Python version doesn't make me want to stab myself in face whenever I write it: Invoking an object callback in PHP: call_user_func_array(array($object,'method_name'),array($arg1,$arg2,$arg3)); Invoking an object callback in Python: object.method_name(arg1,arg2,arg3) (Python's *args and **kwargs are especially useful in these types of situations.) Although PHP is slowly adding useful modern language features (lambdas, closures), some of the syntax really is terrible. I honestly can't imagine anyone preferring the former to the latter, at least in this example.