> PHP was saved because it decided to look like Java,which neither Ruby or Python do,which allows writing these huge codebases like Doctrine or Symfony.
What does looking like Java have to do with being able to write huge codebases? Both Python and Ruby have libraries just as big as (or bigger than) Doctrine and Symfony.
> What does looking like Java have to do with being able to write huge codebases? Both Python and Ruby have libraries just as big as (or bigger than) Doctrine and Symfony.
Django and Rails, to name just two open source projects, and I've seen proprietary Python apps with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. You still haven't said how PHP allows you to write bigger codebases than Python or Ruby, and what that has to do with looking like Java.
What does looking like Java have to do with being able to write huge codebases? Both Python and Ruby have libraries just as big as (or bigger than) Doctrine and Symfony.