He is "demonizing" some "typical PHP programmer". It's not the languages fault that it is allegedly often used by novices to start their first website project,

He is "demonizing" some "typical PHP programmer". It's not the languages fault that it is allegedly often used by novices to start their first website project, and that by no fault of their own those novices do not have any appreciable CS education and thus build their programs like I build a sandcastle: keep trying random things until it does not fall over anymore. The argument is exactly to make this difference. There is the technical and somewhat objective aspect of the language and its implementation, and there are the people who created the language, who use the language etc. A bad language can have a great community, and vise versa.