> all library functions being in the global scope Ever used C? > lack of sane naming conventions for those things Absolutely annoying but also fairly minimal

> all library functions being in the global scope Ever used C? > lack of sane naming conventions for those things Absolutely annoying but also fairly minimal. Mostly an issue in the string & array functions. > terrible type conversions Weak typing has to coerce somehow. Javascript is equally "terrible" at times. > unsafe libraries Such as? All the major libraries are thread-safe that I'm aware of > starting php with every request PHP exists outside of the web, and even in the web environment, you can run it as fastcgi since inception as a persistent daemon and php-fpm is the standard daemon now as well. > being able to drop raw php right into html templates I view that as a feature (which is often abused by beginners)