[ThomPete]

Listen here.

I reacted to the typical criticism made about PHP which we saw again in this thread. The OP was about well written PHP and of course it turns into a PHP is bad.

Well boo freaking hoo.

PHP is a great tool. If you dont like it anymore dont use it. If you fear it will hinder your companies future success even though it seems to serve FB amongst others just fine for a while, dont use it.

But please, please, please, dont confuse your own personal opinion about what is good and bad with the fact that for many people PHP is a great tool.

[sixthloginorso]

With the typical reaction. "Thousands of sites use PHP just fine". "I don't care about the quality of libraries or the design of a language, and if you do, you're a snob". Trite.

And I doubt I, and many here, will ever make or work with a company which can have the leisure to rewrite the language implementation.

[ThomPete]

Thats not the typical reaction. The typical reaction is to go on a hate fest about PHP just as it happened in this thread purely based on some self-established criteria for why it is so bad.

Case in point. A post about high quality PHP gets turned into a discussion about PHP as a language.