No matter what the state of a language/application/etc is, how much it's supported by the masses, there will always be those out there balancing out the popularity with their own opinions to the contrary. Where some see one of the best things since slides bread, others see things weighted towards the less positive side. For the popular LAMP package, one of those people is Cliff Wells who voices his opinions in this new blog post.

He makes several points about the package, including:

• that both PHP and MySQL are "full of holes" and encourage bad habits
• MySQL limits developers with missing features (PostgreSQL offers better support)
• PHP's low entry level makes te code written in it more succeptible to big issues (including SQL injections)

There's a quick comment at the end noting that PHP and MySQL have done a lot to "bring open source into the mainstream", but that they've done their job and we need to move on.