Do you consider that an acceptable excuse for its behaviors fifteen years after the fact? Because I do not.

Of course not, but everyone keeps comparing PHP to languages that were designed and developed to be languages, not a toolset that some crappy developer (his own words) created for his personal site that ended up evolving and becoming a real language.

It's got quirks, we get it. Let's keep improving the language as we go instead of constantly bashing it. I mean PHP is one of the most widely used languages on the web today.. Clearly it's doing something right.

People compare PHP to other languages regularly used in 2015 for web development. In that light, it compares very poorly.

McDonald's is super popular, too, and deserves even more of a ration of shit than they get for feeding people slop.