> so there's no reason to suggest that you still can't build up $50m companies on purely PHP code. Yeah, that I agree with. The success of a company and the qu

> so there's no reason to suggest that you still can't build up $50m companies on purely PHP code. Yeah, that I agree with. The success of a company and the quality of the programming language(s) it uses are almost never linked. >Anyway the discussion from the article is whether it would have been better to write it in Java. I can't see what benefit Java would bring. Quite true, yes.