So basically the author is saying what hackers have been saying all along? That even tough you can make amazing things with php (though the same can be said abo

So basically the author is saying what hackers have been saying all along? That even tough you can make amazing things with php (though the same can be said about almost any language), php is still a clumsy language with awful conventions. No decent programmer is going to tell you that you're wrong to use php, but that there are so many better languages out there now, that people should really open themselves to new (or old) but better technologies. Edit: Don't get me wrong though, I completely agree with your 'review'. But you came to the conclusion that php is not that bad... which off course doesn't make it good by exclusion.