On Jackson Miller's blog today, he has a new post titled "PHP5 is Fun to use" detailing some of his happiness about dealing with and writing OOP code in PHP.

I have been doing many hours of PHP5 coding lately. It is really fun. I can write really pretty PHP5 OO code; I think that is more a testament to PHP5's syntax than my abilities.

There are things I don't like about PHP (installation / configuration sucks, NAMESPACES!!!, PDO is not quite ready yet, I would prefer if everything was an object, optional return declarations would be nice, variable scope is a little loose, etc). However, warts and all, PHP5 is a very nice mixture of dynamic and interpreted. And I think it is much prettier than Ruby and Python, but maybe I just haven't spent enough time with a 'whitespace' language.

Just wanted to say thanks to the PHP language developers and let them know that I am enjoying their work.

Always great to have another convert to add to the list. Seriously, though - PHP has one of the easiest "just get started coding already" factors of any language that I've worked with. I think that has played a large part in the wide-spread adoption of PHP thus far. So many people have been able to pick it up so quickly (which I guess can be considered both good and bad, depending on the perspective), that it's really spread like wildfire across the internet...