This debate is always the same rehash of ye olde time story as recounted in "The rise of Worse is better"[1]. That's why we had Unix boxes instead of LISP mach

This debate is always the same rehash of ye olde time story as recounted in "The rise of Worse is better"[1]. That's why we had Unix boxes instead of LISP machines, that's why we had PCs running MS-DOS and not Amigas, why we later had PCs running NT instead of SGI Octanes, and nowadays people have PCs running windows7 rather than elegant iMacs. "Cheap and easy, quick and dirty, and get the job done" is a perfect description of PHP and the very reason for its success. [1]: http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html