Popularity != proof of goodness. I never said it was the greatest language ever. I'll take Ruby or Lisp over PHP any day. I was simply saying that the OP's pos

Popularity != proof of goodness. I never said it was the greatest language ever. I'll take Ruby or Lisp over PHP any day. I was simply saying that the OP's post is framed as if PHP was generally considered a useless newbie language, and that using it for a startup is somehow noteworthy.