That's more of a general (if colorful) perspective on the language's origins and your experiences with it, but I'm wondering what specific features of the langu

That's more of a general (if colorful) perspective on the language's origins and your experiences with it, but I'm wondering what specific features of the language you feel are missing? I have experience with both PHP and Ruby, by the way, and am lead developer for a very large open source application built in PHP, used mostly for pragmatic reasons, but I am interested in hearing what language features people feel PHP is missing.