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by dragonwriter 4780 days ago
> You comment is very condescending.

I am asking serious questions. If that seems condescending to you, well, I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

> You should not be trying to infer from the parent comment that dageshi is some kind of naive newby programmer who doesn't understand.

I was neither inferring nor "try to infer" that. I was questioning specific comments and pointing to specific examples of why I thought the generalizations being made were incorrect.

> dageshi made some valid comments about the role PHP fills

What were made were sweeping generalities about the superiority of PHP being evidenced by it being used in areas that Python and other languages are not, that evidenced unclear and apparently inconsistent standards as well as failure to consider Python and other non-PHP products that do, in fact, exist in the roles in which it was asserted that PHP was the only language actually being used.

> you dismissed them and instead focused on calling him/her out for being a bad/poor programmer.

Nowhere in my comment did I call anyone a bad/poor programmer. I don't mind reasonable criticism of things that I write, but I'd prefer if you didn't invent things that I never wrote and then criticize me for writing them.