Sure, and I'm still using PHP every once in a while for personal needs (I have a handful of small personal websites built this way: PHP has this insanely cool c

Sure, and I'm still using PHP every once in a while for personal needs (I have a handful of small personal websites built this way: PHP has this insanely cool capability of being just a scripting language for a basic dynamic website). What's sad is that it's not how people use and teach PHP today. PHP's magic really is that you can write small scripts super easily to do small tasks, but somehow most PHP developers insist that “no PHP isn't for building small scripts” but “a real, professional back end language ready for mission critical enterprise requirements blah blah blah”, because surely that make them sound more serious as programmers, missing the point entirely… (And sorry to all insecure PHP programmers out there, but for serious stuff using PHP is still equivalent to coding with handcuffs and you should really learn a second programming language at last because being a one trick poney really isn't as cool as you think it is).