I think PHP will end up being the BASIC of our generation. It was so easy to pickup and understand. The fact that it was really a templating language helped p

I think PHP will end up being the BASIC of our generation. It was so easy to pickup and understand. The fact that it was really a templating language helped people make that jump from static HTML -> programming in small increments. And once you knew PHP, you weren't locked into web-dev. You could easily leverage your knowledge into systems development; I think roughly 40% of my PHP work ended up being backend utilities for Linux.