I see comments like this a lot about Perl and PHP as if they are trying to justify why they shouldn't have fallen out of favor. Both languages had plenty of goo

I see comments like this a lot about Perl and PHP as if they are trying to justify why they shouldn't have fallen out of favor. Both languages had plenty of good things, but rehashing them in this way doesn't do anything because the good things are not the reason they fell out of favor.