Simply because you may be an exception, it doesn't disprove the general case. Many self taught programmers (which php brought a rush of) lack programming fundam

Simply because you may be an exception, it doesn't disprove the general case. Many self taught programmers (which php brought a rush of) lack programming fundamentals. They are blissfully unaware of the implications of the Von Neumann architecture, and don't understand how their actions translate down the various layers that support their code. If this was written 10 years ago, the author would have likely cited Perl, or VB.