Hah.. bazinga! I've learned a lot since I started writing Ruby at my first permanent job in 2010, and I'm 100% sure that if I looked at any of the early Ruby c

Hah.. bazinga! I've learned a lot since I started writing Ruby at my first permanent job in 2010, and I'm 100% sure that if I looked at any of the early Ruby code I wrote in 2010, I'd grumble and groan at it just as hard as if you showed me some PHP code that I wrote at my first co-op job as a sophomore in college. You can write great code in any language. You can also write a shanty-town or big ball of mud, in practically any language. I think it's unfair to say that PHP in and of itself represents a "bad code smell." But I'm also fairly sure from anecdotal evidence that I'm in the minority. I understand completely now. Thanks for that.