There's a simple adage that a good tool makes simple things easy and difficult things possible. By that measure, PHP is a pretty good tool. Yes, other tools are

There's a simple adage that a good tool makes simple things easy and difficult things possible. By that measure, PHP is a pretty good tool. Yes, other tools are better in various ways, but ease of deployment is a non-trivial quality. (I did like the quote suggesting AppleScript is "even worse" than PHP. I'd say it's far worse, since AppleScript makes easy things difficult.)