Invisible wrote:
> I just learned PHP. I feel unclean...

Good! That means you have a sense of elegance. :-)  But we knew that.

> [Seriously. The *introductory tutorial* is littered with warnings about 
> obscure functionallity which used to be broken but now isn't, and 
> strange features that used to work one way but now work a slightly 
> different way. I'm almost scared to write anything with this...]

Yes. You should be.

That and the complete clusterfuck that the naming of all the 
functionality has.

> Still, for some reason PHP is extremely popular, 

Because, sadly, it has huge quivering gobs of useful libraries in it.

> stitching complex blocks of HTML together with relative ease.

Don't do that on a real project. Use actual data-like templates. The 
problem is that the person writing the code isn't the person who decides 
what goes in the HTML.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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