Well, IIRC there are still no namespaces, it's still thousands of functions from hundreds of libraries I did not invite partying in my basement. The calling conventions are still organized like Alice's wonderland and there are no closure-like things. Calling "call_user_func" with an array just doesn't count :)

But with fairly decent OO support we can stick things in classes, which gets around the lack of name spaces most of the time. Lack of anonymous functions and closures is a pain - as is the huge mess of inconsistently named subroutines.

No it's not the best language in the world. It's definitely not my favourite language by quite some way. Neither is it a completely inappropriate choice for professional work.

In reply to Re^6: The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by adrianh
in thread The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by Spidy

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