Haha, true. I just recently wanted to make a quick and dirty page that would calculate the middle point of a bunch of coordinates and then show it on a map. After contemplating how to get started I remembered that the server is running mod_php. 10 mins later and the (ugly as heck) page was working. The map stuff was client-side JavaScript from GitHub, the coordinate calculation were less than a screen page of PHP (of which most was HTML and CSS).