I picked up PHP because it was like C (which I use since I was born) with training wheels and some quirks.
It gets the job done, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes not so very much - depending on who did the work. It's a workhorse, and has been demonstrated as such millions of times so far. Performance depends a lot on deployment strategy, but it can be fast.
I really see no point in bashing PHP. It's a tool, it has tons of documentation, libraries and available helpful people. Sure, I'd like to have some tweaks here and there, but with what tool wouldn't you?
There is a saying around here, roughly translated: Rusty cock minds every(single) pube.
It gets the job done, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes not so very much - depending on who did the work. It's a workhorse, and has been demonstrated as such millions of times so far. Performance depends a lot on deployment strategy, but it can be fast.
I really see no point in bashing PHP. It's a tool, it has tons of documentation, libraries and available helpful people. Sure, I'd like to have some tweaks here and there, but with what tool wouldn't you?
There is a saying around here, roughly translated: Rusty cock minds every(single) pube.