Geez, this only got rated a "3" when it should be a 6!?
As a long-time Perl teacher, my students are always coming
back to me in awe and wonderment wondering why anyone with
good Perl knowledge would use a language, PHP, which is
"Severely Underpowered Perl for Dummies"??

I've been teaching Perl and Advanced Perl for 10 years and
the whole PHP phenomenon mystifies me. I suspect that the
prosaic truth is that a large proportion of PHP'ers are
overwhelmed by Perl because they're not really adept
programmers while accomplished Perl programmers just find
PHP infuriatingly limiting.

Gee, let's keep creating dumbed down, "knock-off" languages
so we can go lower and lower and lower on the IQ scale until
people with an IQ of 80 can be "programmers".