&gt;<i>I&#x27;m not snarking; I honestly don&#x27;t know. I tried using PHP years ago, threw up my hands in horror, and have never touched it since.</i><p>Without exactly knowing what exactly bothered you and what you use instead, we can&#x27;t answer.<p>As for &quot;PHP: A Fractal of Bad Design&quot;, I find the article quite shallow. One could say the same things comparing something like Python to Smalltalk, and yet Python is fine as it is.