@woozle PHP devs aren't (merely) incompetent people who are unaware of certain things. Rather, they deliberately insist on not even trying to get anything right. This attitude is a precondition for working on PHP at all.

> But comparing two strings makes them into numbers?

[Edited to remove a part I'd gotten plain wrong; PHP isn't ‘stringly typed’.] Lots of languages are like this; it's a valid design decision. Though it's certainly possible to implement that better than PHP does.