You're comparing apples an oranges. PHP is no more sane than classic ASP. They're both pretty awful.
I think thats unfair. PHP sucks some hairy donkey's balls, but VBScript is significantly worse. Dim, Redim Preserve, ByRef, Arrays that are basicly C arrays (see also Redim), Ridiculous Object/Value dichotomy (for those that arent aware you need to use the Set keyword to assign an object to a variable, but not for a value. The distinction bleeds all over your code and makes things hurt) and friends are evil sons of bitches that don't belong in a scripting language.
Hello pot. This is kettle. You're black.
Would you like to expand on your claim? Be quite clear that i dislike both languages. VBS is the worst of the two though.
Classic ASP is whole class of awful all to itself. PHP has far more in common with other scripting languages than it does with Classic ASP. The fact that they both support embedding code into HTML is their only similarity.
Wasabi >> Classic ASP, if that's what you're referring to. But it's a whole lot more, and on top of that it's proprietary. PHP isn't, and that alone makes it more sane.