PHP Woes

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These articles mirror my experiences with PHP. No namespacing is my biggest complaint. It's the root of both PHP's hideously overburdened list of built-in global functions and the inability to make modularized PHP code (ever noticed how many stand alone PHP apps there are compared to good libraries?).

PHP in contrast to Perl (but has a good overview of the weaknesses of PHP).

PHP: A love and hate relationship ... the quality problems of most PHP code.

PHP Annoyances.

Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites is a good article from Linux 2002.