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- It's not owned/run by Sun or Microsoft or IBM and the community is more democratic.
Yeah this is undoubtedly a good thing but this is by no means unique to PHP.
- The manual - PHP has the best one I've ever seen
Oh yes! This is probably one of the single greatest things about PHP.
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The PHP manual is likely the greatest collection of programming documentation out there. I can't help but suspect that it's at least a significant reason why PHP enjoys the popularity it does. Seriously.
Other programming languages (and/or frameworks) should be paying attention here!