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This is one reason that I don't regard PHP as anything more than a toy language.

• sarciszewski 12y ago
  Your elitism is noted and disregarded.
  • ainiriand 12y ago
    Indeed. This 'toy language' has accomplished many millions of strong websites. It has some faults, but all languages has faults.
    • opless 12y ago
      Just because something is popular does not mean that it's "good". However it is "good enough" for many things. Much in the same way as BASIC was rubbish in the 8 but days. But the usage of BASIC was near universal because it was near universal. Php is on virtually every web hosting outfits web servers.
  • opless 12y ago
    Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh, but there should be nothing in a language that should surprise a user of it. The == and === operators are a prime example of this. There are many other reasons why the language is pretty awful to use, date handling not being consistent with the documentation and being generally broken is something else that springs to mind for example. Then again, not many languages get that right either. :-)