When I studied English in college, I discovered that the English language is a very poor choice for writing poetry because it is a very rhyme-poor language. For that, look to French or Italian. English is such a mess of a language, with irregular forms and inconsistent pronunciation. But if you're not writing poetry, English is your best bet, because more people speak it than any other language. You're going to find more books written in English and people who read them, and more people who speak your language.

PHP is the English of the programming world. Python and Ruby have cleaner syntax and consistent programming conventions, but more people speak PHP. There are lots of resources for PHP and lots more developers who know PHP.

If you find yourself in a remote fishing village in China, you're more likely to find one person there who speaks English and knows PHP than one who speaks Italian and knows Ruby.