This statement is absolute nonsense. Why should a programmer hate himself so? I want to have beautiful and powerful tools. The code you write using an elegant

This statement is absolute nonsense. Why should a programmer hate himself so? I want to have beautiful and powerful tools. The code you write using an elegant language might as well be ugly. This shouldn't stop you from enjoying the process and demanding the best tools to do an already difficult job. He admits that PHP ain't pretty, but argues that it does the job and that's good enough. Yes, yes it is good enough. However, he also claims that its the way it should be if you are "interested in building software for the end user." No, it really shouldn't, and thankfully we have practical languages and successful projects that prove it.