Yes. To be strictly fair, both JS and PHP have legitimate excuses; JS because it was done in an insanely short timescale, PHP because it was (initially at least

Yes. To be strictly fair, both JS and PHP have legitimate excuses; JS because it was done in an insanely short timescale, PHP because it was (initially at least) cobbled together by an amateur for his own purposes. I doubt anyone could have predicted that both languages between them would basically be running the planet by 2015 :)