From my experience, PHP can be as expressive as OCaml in the hands of an expert - in different ways, of course, but the end result should be fairly similar in t

From my experience, PHP can be as expressive as OCaml in the hands of an expert - in different ways, of course, but the end result should be fairly similar in terms of size. The problem is that PHP achieves this by throwing any kind of compile-time safety (and any kind of compile time, for that matter) to the wind. It's doing the equivalent of running around naked and shouting "I'm invisible". So, most of the time, you end up with a piece of software that's short and sweet and hopelessly brittle.