[tluyben2]

What do you mean with 'come to understand'? You can use them or you understand why they are there? Because I wouldn't call the former understanding per se and if it is the latter i'm interested to hear about it. If it is something else than 'the developer of x(a,b) was someone else than who implemented y(b,a) and he was lazy or somewhat opinionated, but just not enough to fix the other functions as well' that is.

[blowski]

I could have said "come to live with" instead. It works, it let's me do my job. PHP provides me with a good living (I primarily build boring CRUD apps, also using Python and Ruby).

I think part of PHP's popularity is that it offers a good balance throughout a product lifecycle - prototyping (because of the number of libraries), production (because it runs on anything), maintenance (because it's stable and easy to hire for).

The best analogy I can give is like someone selling me a car. Right now, I'm driving a 20 year old Ford because I'm more interested in saving money than going quickly. If somebody wants me to get a new car, they need to show how I'm going to save money, not just how quick the other car is.

I guess 'Slash' could do that, but right now the copy is not focusing on the difficulties I have with PHP.

[tluyben2]

Yeah I thought you meant that. I did too :) But I just hoped you had some divine insight everyone missed here. Shame :)