Some valid criticisms, but 9 years old and out of date. I think the mistake is thinking of PHP as “designed” as a language, rather than built to solve some rea

Some valid criticisms, but 9 years old and out of date. I think the mistake is thinking of PHP as “designed” as a language, rather than built to solve some real problems. More important is how well PHP works rather than how far away it falls from an imagined better-designed language. As Stroustrup quipped, there are two kinds of languages: Those everyone hates, and those no one uses.