Ah, Rasmus. Rasmus is kind of like the last hockey player who doesn't wear a helmet and looks down on the rest of us pussies. We don't all have 500 million users, man.

He's a got a good point: PHP is a framework. It's just not a very easy one. Clue, Ras: when your users ask you constantly for certain features (say, named parameters or templating) and you don't give it to them, they will go around you. Or they'll stop using your language.