A language designer's gastrointestinal state is orthogonal to a programming language's usefulness and usability. PHP is both of the latter in part by virtue of

A language designer's gastrointestinal state is orthogonal to a programming language's usefulness and usability. PHP is both of the latter in part by virtue of it's ubiquity. Further, many years development experience has allowed me to appreciate that the benefits of a programming language are often inversely proportional to it's level of design purity. And the greater the longevity of a widely-useful programming language, the more haters it will have.