[PHP] What knowledge job require

[Alin]

[size=78%]The thing that pisses me off the most about PHP is how needle/haystack functions switch around, such as stristr($haystack, $needle) and in_array($needle, $haystack), but that's just me.[/size]

It's not just you. It's the developers of PHP that has no clue what they are doing. The PHP language is really a mess in terms on consistency and speed.
PHP is a really crappy language, but widely deployed.

[vezzy]

It's not just you. It's the developers of PHP that has no clue what they are doing. The PHP language is really a mess in terms on consistency and speed.
PHP is a really crappy language, but widely deployed.

I second this notion, but let's face it: it's a fairly simple scripting language (its roots in Perl), its standard library and functions are specially tailored for the web and it comes out-of-the-box in server packages and hosting plans, because it's LAMP, after all.

Also speed isn't that huge of a deal given its primary usage. In fact, it actually does better than Python 3 at arithmetic, although that may be because memory is the limit in Python 3 compared to PHP's hardcoded 32/64-bit values.