Sorry to be dismissive, but elegance, expressiveness or succinctness are not mandatory for "making things". Gatekeeping a programming language on esthetics is quite shallow in my opinion.
Ease of use and deployment, breadth, availability, low cost of maintaining, are sometimes more important, and PHP offers plenty of value in these respects.
I don't want to work with it, but I will never presume to look down on people that do. PHP has been a cornerstone for a whole generation of programmers and I think the current web-development ecosystem would not be where it is without it.
Ease of use and deployment, breadth, availability, low cost of maintaining, are sometimes more important, and PHP offers plenty of value in these respects.
I don't want to work with it, but I will never presume to look down on people that do. PHP has been a cornerstone for a whole generation of programmers and I think the current web-development ecosystem would not be where it is without it.