And all of this is brought to you by the friendly folks of PHP. Next time when you bash PHP because the argument order for functions is inconsistent, think about how some people overlook semantics and build great things with the tools they have at their disposal.
Yeah, it's all brought to us by the friendly PHP folks who found it to be so dog slow they had to write a compiler to get it running at a decent speed. Further, they found the semantics so flaky, they actually wrote a statically typed variant on top of it, just because they're stuck with PHP.
Not all of it. Some of it, maybe. And given that they've forked PHP maybe even less than some.
PHP sometimes doesn't get the credit it deserves for what can be accomplished with it, particularly modern PHP... but i'm not entire sure it deserves credit for this in any reasonable way.
