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What aspect of PHP is "very very good"? Genuinely curious to know.

• petervandijck 15y ago
  It's bad for language purists, but it's very, very good for getting stuff done fast, easy and good-enough. See Facebook etc. A lot of programmers don't believe that a shoddy language (in terms of language design) can be effective, but it is. I also happen to think that PHP scales really, really well the range that most sites need (say, from 1 to 50 servers). In that range, PHP is almost never the bottleneck.
  • tjogin 15y ago
    > "very good for getting stuff done fast, easy and good-enough" You're saying PHP facilitates a faster development process than most other popular web development platforms? This was probably true, ten years ago. Today, we have several platforms that facilitates a fast development process without the language weaknesses and inconsistencies that PHP is burdened with.