So do thousands of people, because they're pragmatic and useful. They're the Honda Civic of the working software world. For people doing real work, you have a w

So do thousands of people, because they're pragmatic and useful. They're the Honda Civic of the working software world. For people doing real work, you have a whole host of great languages available, and there's no sense in pretending that one of them isn't PHP just because you think you're still doing comp sci at uni. There's definitely better languages than PHP, no doubt. But we're in the trenches now, getting stuff done, and people have been getting great things done in PHP for years.