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> Do the people you know have experience with other comparable languages, and still think PHP is a well-designed language and platform? Is this the only thing

> Do the people you know have experience with other comparable languages, and still think PHP is a well-designed language and platform? Is this the only thing upon which to base your opinion of a language? As someone who's seen at least a glimpse of the world beyond PHP, I'd concede that the design of the language, especially in earlier versions, is probably not its biggest selling point. But as you and I agreed below, PHP derives its value in other areas. Maybe it's implicit in a question like "What's your most disliked programming language?" that those other areas should be excluded from consideration, but if that's not the case, then focusing solely on language design is a bit unfair to PHP.

jasonlotito 15y ago
> I'd concede that the design of the language, especially in earlier versions, is probably not its biggest selling point. Keep in mind, the design of the language wasn't to create a new language, but instead, make using various libraries easily usable in a web environment. Hence the reason for the multitude of c or c-like functions. Eventually, the shift moved in a different direction. I like to think that while PHP wasn't intelligently designed, it did evolve. And for my money, evolution beats out intelligent design.
- andys627 15y ago
  +Heyo for evolution > intelligent design