> Programming has to be the only environment where the voices of academia don't seem to matter because "my language gets shit done". Wrong, otherwise we would

> Programming has to be the only environment where the voices of academia don't seem to matter because "my language gets shit done". Wrong, otherwise we would have this discussion in Esperanto. Sometimes Real Life (TM) experience beats clever design. PHP was first, has iterated, always had a niche and is now better than ever. Not good but good enough to save people a lot of work.