> yeah, I could let you write this in something more reasonable, say Ruby or Python, but programmers for those languages are expensive, PHP programmers are much

> yeah, I could let you write this in something more reasonable, say Ruby or Python, but programmers for those languages are expensive, PHP programmers are much cheaper, and I'm going to be hiring more people to help you It sounds like the exec made the right choice. PHP is a wildly successful language that powers an obscene portion of the Internet web apps. That’s not a “bad” language, it’s just an annoying one for engineers to work with. A bad language would be one with so little adoption and such a steep learning curve that hiring new software engineers is a year-long path to expanded productivity.