After being forced to use PHP, I've come to respect it a lot more than when I'd only looked at it. There is nothing ground breaking in bog-standard imperative

After being forced to use PHP, I've come to respect it a lot more than when I'd only looked at it. There is nothing ground breaking in bog-standard imperative control flow, a default data structure of association lists whose keys are numbers or strings, and libraries to parse every format under the sun into that structure and generate it again. On the other hand, that combination is very efficient for the many non-web programmers who occasionally need to do something with a web server.