10 PHP Myths Dispelled

Jaybill McCarthy has posted an interesting post over on his blog where he attempts to dispell some of the common myths surrounding PHP:

Myth #1: PHP is not a truly Object-Oriented Language
Myth #2: PHP Encourages Sloppy Code
Myth #3: PHP doesn’t follow MVC
Myth #4: PHP is slow because it’s interpreted
Myth #5: PHP doesn’t have a good IDE or Debugger
Myth #6: PHP apps all look the same
Myth #7: PHP isn’t really for “serious” developers
Myth #8: PHP is only good for web applications
Myth #9: PHP code is a mess of “include” and “require” statements that break easily
Myth #10: PHP Code is rife with in-line SQL statements

The full article is well worth a read, particularly for you non-PHP developers :)