Robert Peake has this new post over on his weblog today playing the devil's advocate - asking Why not PHP?.

Following up on a recent post explaining why PHP works in the Enterprise, I thought it might be equally useful to lay out the common concerns I have heard over the years from programming shops trying to make the case against PHP and for another web development platform.

Here are a few off the top of my head: "PHP coders are sloppy", "PHP runs heavy", "PHP lacks vendor support", "PHP doesn't handle recursion well", "PHP can't handle complex business logic".

Of course, most of these can be debated all day long (on both sides), but he does make some good points that can help even the most staunch PHP promoter grounded in a more realistic view of what PHP can do...