This is actually quite revealing. Some people think that PHP is just used for the same small web pages it was used for 15 years ago. Other people would like to

This is actually quite revealing. Some people think that PHP is just used for the same small web pages it was used for 15 years ago. Other people would like to use PHP more as a general computing language. Having optional types takes nothing away from using PHP for simple web pages, but does make it easier to right analyzably correct programs. The fact that the founder of a language doesn't want to see it grow is quite depressing.