Well, aside from the fact that it is a language that is awfully convenient for writing Web-based applications, anyway? It is sometimes really annoying.

One of those situations where it is really annoying is when trying to do things that ought to be really simple. For example, when writing an accessor function for a boolean value, one would expect to be able to just do it, right? But because PHP isn’t anywhere close to a strongly, statically typed language, this is impossible to do simply. The programmer must be burdened with checking the types, or hope that the user will never make a mistake.

Some days I wonder why I’m not writing Web application software in C using SCGI…