"Blub" isn't a fictional superior language; it's a fictional average language probably imagined to be similar to Java. It was, so far as I know first described

"Blub" isn't a fictional superior language; it's a fictional average language probably imagined to be similar to Java. It was, so far as I know first described here: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html PHP is Blub in the sense that it is not the most powerful language[0], and some of its users decline to recognize that other languages have advantages over it. From my perspective, there can be no perfect language; certain characteristics are more optimal in some situations, less so in others and mutually exclusive. Type safety and certain kinds of dynamic behavior are an example. [0] I'm not claiming here that any specific language is the most powerful, just that PHP certainly isn't.