It's bad for language purists, but it's very, very good for getting stuff done fast, easy and good-enough.

See Facebook etc.

A lot of programmers don't believe that a shoddy language (in terms of language design) can be effective, but it is.

I also happen to think that PHP scales really, really well the range that most sites need (say, from 1 to 50 servers). In that range, PHP is almost never the bottleneck.

> "very good for getting stuff done fast, easy and good-enough"

You're saying PHP facilitates a faster development process than most other popular web development platforms? This was probably true, ten years ago.

Today, we have several platforms that facilitates a fast development process without the language weaknesses and inconsistencies that PHP is burdened with.