> lucky php has very clever people doing clever things with it - see hhvm for a recent great thing for PHP The whole point of HHVM is to migrate away from the

> lucky php has very clever people doing clever things with it - see hhvm for a recent great thing for PHP The whole point of HHVM is to migrate away from the PHP runtime (by using the PHP language on another runtime). It's a bit perverted to say that's a god thing for PHP.