Okay, I get where you are coming from. And I have to say that I agree with you on several of your points. But what I wanted to stress in my sort of "defence" of

Okay, I get where you are coming from. And I have to say that I agree with you on several of your points. But what I wanted to stress in my sort of "defence" of PHP is that, the fact is, lots of valid programmer use it, either for familiarity reasons, due to existing infrastructures or because they actually enjoy it (I do sometimes!). Complete rewrites are a mythical creature in the real world, so why not embrace, improve and push forward anything that tries to make PHP better in the future, instead of dismissing the whole technology as useless.