[ptx]

"Its forgiving nature", like VB's "On Error Resume Next" and JavaScript's automatic semicolon insertion, is not an advantage. Debugging with cryptic error messages is better than having no idea that the program is silently doing the wrong thing.

Its standard library is no more comprehensive than those of comparable languages.

The only advantage left, then, is the same one all the sibling comments bring up: it's already installed on the server.

So the question remains: Why would anyone who has a choice and knows that other languages exist ever use it for anything?