Good and bad points of PHP?

Question

Yesterday in an interview it was suggested to name three good and three bad things about PHP. This was a junior position, and the interviewer did not expect answers to all questions and answers.

I am mainly a web hosting developer, and what are the good and bad points of PHP?

Answer 1

Good moments:

• It is everywhere on every system / server that you do not need to worry about installation.
• This is popular, there is a huge community of developers, which means that you can easily get help and find reusable scripts to use
• php.net is a pretty good resource

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