[papsosouid]

>and its still more efficient all around than most other tools for the problems most people need to solve in the real world.

How exactly? I always see vague assertions that PHP is somehow better for "stuff I do in the real world", but nothing concrete. Guess what, the rest of the world is real too. I am not writing haskell code for my imaginary friend, I am writing it for real users to use in the real world, and a real business relies on it to provide real people with real incomes to feed their real families. How exactly would PHP be "more efficient all around"?

[ericingram]

When I say efficiency, I mean in the economic sense. That the ratio of input it takes to develop some things in PHP is lower than it would be for other languages.

[papsosouid]

When I say exactly, I mean a precise, concrete example. I've used PHP for over a decade. I have yet to encounter a case where using it was optimal, only cases where using it was required by customer demands. That is why I am asking for a real example of something that is easier in PHP, instead of a vague "some stuff".