PHP is the lowest common denominator. PHP is the ghetto. It might be fun or necessary when you're young and can't afford better. But, eventually people who are

PHP is the lowest common denominator. PHP is the ghetto. It might be fun or necessary when you're young and can't afford better. But, eventually people who are able, move somewhere they aren't being mentally stabbed in the face every time they pop down to the corner store. This, of course, reinforces the ghetto. As the people who can't leave are the dregs. Nothing is as black and white as a couple sentences makes it sound. But, that is the place PHP has (deserved or no) in the programming world.