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Lol, Wikipedia which you linked to is PHP. Roughly half the web runs on Wordpress for crying out loud.



I admitted in another comment[1] that I shouldn't have said sole outlier.

But I find it surprising you're defending PHP if you feel popularity of a language is determined primarily by how well designed it is, as by that logic C and Java are way better than PHP.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803088

[2] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....


My town is full of meth addicts, it must be okay!


they are obviously not the majority of the people living in your town.




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