(author here) I didn't intend to criticize PHP, and I don't think I did. I said that you can't convince people not to use bash or PHP by writing posts on the I

(author here) I didn't intend to criticize PHP, and I don't think I did. I said that you can't convince people not to use bash or PHP by writing posts on the Internet, which is true. I also said that Facebook is replacing PHP, which is true. That's not a criticism of PHP. The fact that huge companies like Yahoo and Facebook can be started with PHP is amazing. I think PHP is a good analogy for bash. It gets the core things right, and it gets a ton of work done. I like languages you can get work done in! That's why I use bash. But both languages also evolved a lot of warts. That's inevitable when you have so many users. They have diverse needs, and you need to preserve backward compatibility, which leads to an awkward evolution.