> 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 langu

> 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.