If you recall the cartoon of programming languages as weapons, PHP was a sword without a hilt, which was quite fitting. Despite the low barrier to entry, there

If you recall the cartoon of programming languages as weapons, PHP was a sword without a hilt, which was quite fitting. Despite the low barrier to entry, there were "features" that were / are distinctly dangerous, and should not have been exposed to beginners (the comments section in the official documentation os a perfect example of this).