I agree. A lot of complaints I've seen about the language, beyond its inconsistent function names and the occasional argument, are from people expecting the lan

I agree. A lot of complaints I've seen about the language, beyond its inconsistent function names and the occasional argument, are from people expecting the language to be more than it is. Different languages exist to address different problems and serve different purposes/platforms. Perhaps PHP is lagging behind Python and Ruby, but it's by no means a useless language.