[thaumaturgy]

My comment wasn't entirely directed only at your post. The most common complaint against PHP (and other languages, frameworks, etc.) is that it doesn't support the features or methods the programmer expects.

That said, in direct reference to your post: so what? My point still stands. I don't disagree with your assessment of the way it implements those features, I just don't think that it means "there is no hope for PHP", and I don't think it's at all productive to waste time complaining that it doesn't behave the way you want it to.

PHP -- and most other languages -- do have the power to "hack something together". You just have to be willing to adapt to the system at hand.