I'm not really making any strong comment about PHP's usefulness or anything. I'm just saying that many of the things that have happened in its development would

I'm not really making any strong comment about PHP's usefulness or anything. I'm just saying that many of the things that have happened in its development would sound like they came right out of the manual for INTERCAL, except that they're too over the top. As for its popularity, well, that would be the "got out of hand" part.