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There's clean and open source. Look at some of the nicer Linux distros.

True, but people associate it with web development. Do a university course, most likely they'll teach you PHP. Contract someone to do a small site for you, they'll probably use PHP. WordPress uses PHP and it's the foundation of some of the most popular websites on the web.

Even if you want it or not, PHP is part of the web, de facto or not.

Nobody said it's completely awful. It's just that using learning another language for it isn't necessarily the best way to go for someone new. Just like I'd rather use only one single language for scripting on my PC, not 5.

CoffeeScript sure does have some problems of its own, but it was designed to be compilable to JavaScript.

And of course developers are not going affected by the flaws mentioned in the snippets, but they're present and not nice. Would you like to work on a desk that's always messy?