Programming languages are tools. Some tools are better than others, some are better for certain situations. For all non-contractors, no one is forcing you to

Programming languages are tools. Some tools are better than others, some are better for certain situations. For all non-contractors, no one is forcing you to write in one language over another (or stay employed at a php shop). It seems like the only point of having threads like this is for the leet programmers to look down on php. What's the point? This isn't constructive, its condescending and back-patting. (the reason this makes me mad is that the sadness list is just a bunch of minor gripes. Every language has minor problems. PHP has fundamental flaws and that causes sadness, not this crap.)