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I always felt very productive in PHP, because the only rewarding part of PHP is having made something. It never rewarded sophistication... but making a web site that did something WAS rewarding, so all my attention went to that part.

Calling Haskell an anti-PHP seems fair.



The same author of the original explores this theme with Java: https://blog.plover.com/prog/Java.html


That perfectly describes Java (and C#).

It's the land of mediocritity.




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