Here’s the part where all of my savvy friends mock me.

I don’t hate PHP.

I was talking to John Keith this morning about how I didn’t hate it
(specifically, we were talking about python), and here’s why:

1) Documentation. I find it really hard to find python documentation
(I know that not everyone feels this way…it’s just not intuitive for
me). PHP documentation is gorgeous.
2) You have a lot more in front of you without having to go track down
libraries and worry about incompatibilities and installing across
platforms and servers. I realize that this is also one of its biggest
faults and that even mentioning this as a “strengh” makes me a big fat
plebe.
3) General readability and intuitiveness (not bashing python here–its
forced whitespace conformity makes it pretty easy to scan, and bad PHP
is, well, bad in an illegible way). But the functions, I find, are
almost always named exactly what I’d expect them to be named. Etc.

Yep, I know it’s a security nightmare and the language of morons and
stuff, but I still don’t hate it. So sue me.