I must be a lunatic because despite all its warts, I love PHP. There are a fair number of gotchas with PHP, but I think the docs are generally great, mostly tho

I must be a lunatic because despite all its warts, I love PHP. There are a fair number of gotchas with PHP, but I think the docs are generally great, mostly thorough and usually easy to find what you are looking for, everything is in one central place and user comments/examples can be incredibly helpful. I'm able to write fast, efficient code in PHP quickly. It's not going to win a race against C any time soon, but for what it is it's pretty quick, and of course there are a large number of extensions available for it that are written in C. I'm sure it's not the same for everyone, but the amount of time it takes me to write code in PHP is significantly less than any other language I've messed with. Note: While the vast majority of my work these days is done in PHP, previously I worked almost entirely in C++. I've also used/dabbled in Perl, COBOL, BASIC, VBA, Java, Javascript, Python, AS3, Lisp. I've also looked at some Ruby code, maybe changed 3 lines of it in my entire life. ;)