I just have to point to this entry on buriningbird, the paragraphs about PHP are just great:

till, the Java developers and the Perl developers and C++ developers and so on, looked down their nose at this cute little scripting language and ignored it. Ignored it until they looked around one day and noticed something…

PHP was ubiquitous.

It was and still is.  Here is a language that just all of sudden was it.  It was the thing.  I can’t even remember the first app I wrote in it, but I do feel fairly comfortable in saying that it probably sucked.  Suckage aside, I am sure that it worked.  The second one did as well.  And down the line it went, till this day.  Every problem that appears in my web programming world can be fixed with a dabbing of PHP.  Why is this?

Simplicity.  Here is a language that doesn’t worry about cleaning up, who can have the shortest line of code, or what specific flavour is being run on a server.  It interfaces with your database server and places the information on your website.  It does some other stuff too, but that is almost secondary.  PHP doesn’t get in the way, and that is wonderful.

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