[arez]

yep, stopped reading after this. How can this be objective if you think that everyone is a "bad" programmer that uses this or that language, wtf.

Pros for PHP could be, it's templating capabilities with HTML, easy to use DB interfaces and the entanglement with the web/HTML/web-server in general. Nowadays you don't really write these kinds of apps anymore where your backend returns whole HTML Pages but that doesn't mean it's a bad language.

[krapp]

> How can this be objective if you think that everyone is a "bad" programmer that uses this or that language, wtf.

I get the feeling the author is either not trying to be objective, or is one of those people who confuses strident opinion for objective fact. "PHP is bad and everyone who uses it is bad" is a meme that some people take seriously... and one that also applied to javascript until Node.js appeared and it became valuable, interestingly enough.

I would say there are no objectively bad languages, just bad code (which can be written in any language), or languages which aren't used in an optimal way, since every one was created with a specific frame of mind and intended use case. PHP serves its purpose, and if someone doesn't want to use it, they can just not use it. Obviously PHP has pros, if it didn't, no one would use it.

[jesterson]

Same. Also I'd add low entry barrier and maturity of interpreter.

Of course, this comes at a price. But saying PHP has no pros is quite subjective

[ncphillips]

Calling it “subjective” is being pretty nice. It’s just an obviously incorrect statement.