[sho]

"IMHO, attitude towards PHP is a great way to tell if someone really codes or just quotes the current hype. People that actually build stuff appreciate PHP's ease of deployment and scaling"

I don't agree with this. Yes, everyone knows PHP is easy to deploy, and it's faster than the ruby/pythons etc. But it's an ugly mess with a long history of security problems and a design that flows against the principles of well designed architecture. I know plenty of people who "really code" and abhor PHP.

I know what you mean about "trendy" language snobbishness being a hallmark of someone who doesn't actually know what they're talking about, but in PHP's case I think there is a case for informed people having strong, negative opinions.

Doesn't excuse the Reddit behaviour, of course, I don't miss that one bit. Just sayin'...

[ahoyhere]

Or maybe it's just because they spent lots and lots of hours doing things that made PHP (and thus them) cry.

When you spend every day for months writing methods like __get and __set and so on, and try to work around the other busted aspects of the object model, it can get to you.