One thing many people seem to forget when discussing PHP is that if PHP vast library of built in functions doesn't do what you need, you don't have to live with

One thing many people seem to forget when discussing PHP is that if PHP vast library of built in functions doesn't do what you need, you don't have to live without, you can just write an extension, recompile, and you're in business. PHP allows you to write important logic in C, giving me yet another reason use it.