I think I've been miss understood. My point wasn't that PHP is a bad language, I'm a hardened PHP dev and have been fighting it's corner here on HN for months.

I think I've been miss understood. My point wasn't that PHP is a bad language, I'm a hardened PHP dev and have been fighting it's corner here on HN for months. It really doesn't help PHP that a site as popular as phpclasses has such a large degree of inferior code.