Why PHP won

I've run out of patience with PHP, but I've always recognized the coexistence of its strengths and its weaknesses that narrower minds refused to acknowledge. Some CTO has a long post essentially arguing this.

I first learned PHP in January 2000. I remember the date exactly. This was only shortly after 4.0 had just come out. I had some acquaintances who were using PHP 3 but I had never tried it.

For awhile I loved PHP. Being used to the fixed-memory limitations of the data structures of C/C++ and mysterious segfaults I often couldn't understand, I found PHP to be incredibly liberating.