> For a language to be so hated it has to be used a lot, and that's the primary virtue of PHP: it runs damn-near everywhere. “Runs damn-near everywhere” is tru

> For a language to be so hated it has to be used a lot, and that's the primary virtue of PHP: it runs damn-near everywhere. “Runs damn-near everywhere” is true of nearly all contemporary scripting languages, though, no? It’s definitely used a lot, though I don’t know how that compares to Perl, Ruby, Python... Without digging in harder, I still think it came at about the right time and had a killer feature: a dynamic nascent web with an incredibly low barrier to entry. You could create a form and ask for a persons name and have it respond “Hello, $name!”. I feel like it got entrenched and never gave that up.