[yvdriess]

> classic clueless developer mentality

Nice straw man argument. Pointing out that PHP is used for social/economic reasons is exactly saying that there are considerations outside technical merit.

At the same time, Facebook is a big Haskell user, but that is because of its technical merits. (Simon Marlow works for Facebook) On a back-end technology such as a compiler, the technical merits of the language are much more important than the social merits of finding enough low-skilled/low-paid developers.