What can PHP do that other less vilified languages can't? What is its "niche"?
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Please, everyone is supposed to be slagging C++ (and me), here. I'm sure there will be rich opportunities to dis PHP, in other threads.
You are right, my apologies. It was just so surprising a mention I couldn't stop myself.
My experience from 1990 was it was the perfect language to add a bit of server-side logic to some raw HTML.
So the niche (for me) was a nice transition from something I understood (HTML) to something new (dynamic webpages).
In that way it is similar to batch files / bash scripts.