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Re:PHP vs. Lisp? by trezor on Monday September 22, 2008 @11:07AM (#311193)
Feel free to guess how the rest of the article went.

Free tip: It involves ignoring all the shortcomings of PHP and highlighting all the shortcomings of Lisp.

Re:PHP vs. Lisp? by DougBTX on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @09:27AM (#312354)
Eh?

PHP is overly verbose and terribly inconsistent and lacks powerful methods of abstraction and proper closures and easy-to-use meta-programming goodness and Lisp-macro syntactic wonders; in that sense it's not a very powerful language.