The point as I understood was that for all of PHP's faults, (almost by accident) it managed to get certain things right, or at least right for the Web in the time in the time of it's heyday.
These being, chiefly, that the much-maligned document-based scripting model turns out to be really easy to package, deploy, and most of all, to learn. And that it also (again by accident) happens to be in some ways easier to program safely in, compared to handler-response based frameworks.
Don't get me wrong -- I don't see these as anywhere close to redeeming strengths for PHP. It's still a crappy language, all the cheerleading and apologetics from the likes of FB and Etsy notwithstanding. But the presentation does make some interesting points.
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This is not about taking PHP seriously.
The point as I understood was that for all of PHP's faults, (almost by accident) it managed to get certain things right, or at least right for the Web in the time in the time of it's heyday.
These being, chiefly, that the much-maligned document-based scripting model turns out to be really easy to package, deploy, and most of all, to learn. And that it also (again by accident) happens to be in some ways easier to program safely in, compared to handler-response based frameworks.
Don't get me wrong -- I don't see these as anywhere close to redeeming strengths for PHP. It's still a crappy language, all the cheerleading and apologetics from the likes of FB and Etsy notwithstanding. But the presentation does make some interesting points.