PHP -> much better that people often give it credit for I've hardly ever used PHP over the course of my 20 year career, being mostly on C, Java and JavaScript,

PHP -> much better that people often give it credit for I've hardly ever used PHP over the course of my 20 year career, being mostly on C, Java and JavaScript, but on the few times that I have, I have always been really impressed with all aspects of the experience. Whatever academic semantic deficiencies PHP might have, there is no more accessible language for making web site backends with and its sad that so many people are discouraged from using it.