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"in actual fact the criticism is uniformly negative, usually quite childish and un-actionable, one step shy of a value statement about the users of those languages.

It's just a good old hanging party in disguise."

The problem is, I FULLY agree with EVERY aspect of EVERY php bashing (ok, almost), even though I use this language daily, and have been using it for almost 10 years now. ( :S )

The point is, the original implication, that Perl or Python or Ruby or whatever other languange fanatics fabricate or like these php bashing posts, is completely false. If I had a blog, I could have hundreds of php bashing posts, because over 10 years of php usage you encounter a number of mayor WTFs (believe me ;) and you REALLY hate them.

I don't take it as a personal insult at all, and noone should. Ofc I'm not a php-only programmer, but maybe noone should be? Maybe if someone is offended by a bashing of his/her favorite language, it's time to reevaluate some personal issues about self esteem? Or if someone is a somelang-only programmer, then maybe a broadening of skillset (by other languages) is advisable anyway?