[blasdel]

How do you square that with him having designed a byzantine language, written an inefficient implementation, and built a standard library that's the most excessive of all time?

The things he disdains as novel in other languages are 40 years old — as old as he is!

[JoeU]

And how do you square your view with the fact that PHP is one of the most pervasive languages out there? If it is so terribly inefficient and byzantine, then nobody in their right mind should be using it. Yet they do. So they are either all crazy, or perhaps the things you don't like about it aren't actually very important to most people. They probably like the fact that you can get things done extremely quickly in it.