The best thing about PHP is that it often serves as a good model of how not to solve technical problems. A lot of people have experience with it so taking examp

The best thing about PHP is that it often serves as a good model of how not to solve technical problems. A lot of people have experience with it so taking examples from PHP resonates with them. PHP is getting worse in this regard because the current implementation fixes quite a few things. Unfixable things remain though and PHP will keep serving as a bad example in the future.