After reading up on the powerful SPL classes included with PHP5 and developing on top of the very well-coded KohanaPHP framework, PHP development has become ver

After reading up on the powerful SPL classes included with PHP5 and developing on top of the very well-coded KohanaPHP framework, PHP development has become very productive lately. Although, I prefer Python's syntax, the deployment speed of PHP is very hard to match. The inconsistent function library definitely gets annoying, but I guess that's why PHP has such excellent documentation. Using Eclipse PDT code hinting also mitigates the API annoyances.