不容易呀，PHP 在某些方面得到了 Ruby 阵营的 DHH 的认同（The immediacy of PHP）：

I've been writing a little bit of PHP again today. That platform has really received an unfair reputation. For the small things I've been used it for lately, it's absolutely perfect.

I love the fact that it's all just self-contained. That the language includes so many helpful functions in the box. And that it managed to get distributed with just about every instance of Apache out there.

For the small chores, being quick and effective matters far more than long-term maintenance concerns. Or how pretty the code is. PHP scales down like no other package for the web and it deserves more credit for tackling that scope.

其实语言就是工具，何必非要比个高低呢。PHP 和 Ruby 各有所长，都有适用的地方，只是有些 fans 太过于狂热了，非要分出个高下来，这就如同“萝卜白菜哪个更好吃”的问题一样，呵呵。