Hi!
If anything, I would argue that PHP is a language unsuited to beginners (and other scripting languages), as it is so flexible it doesn't enforce good programming practice. Java is much more a 'beginner language' because it has much stricter
Contrary to popular belief, people usually don't start with programming to be taught good practices and become enlightened in the ways of Art. They usually start because they need their computers to do something for them. And scripting languages are often the easiest way to make that happen. Java, on the other hand, forces you to deal with exceptions, patterns, interfaces, generics, covariants and contravariants, locking, etc. which you neither want nor need to know, only because somebody somewhere decided that it's right for you.
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