"just as there are those that can code PHP but could not code Java." Really? The use of the word "could not" here seems kind of presumptuous. It's possible th

"just as there are those that can code PHP but could not code Java." Really? The use of the word "could not" here seems kind of presumptuous. It's possible that the "barrier to entry" for PHP is simply lower because there are more places you can easily run a "hello world" script, but once someone is setup with some kind of repeatable code -> deploy process "writing" the difference between "writing" one language and another is relatively benign. He seems to be making out that Java is some kind of hard language to learn compared to PHP. I learned Java before PHP (and after C/Assembly at uni) but I much prefer writing code in PHP compared with Java - not because Java is "hard" but because it's annoyingly verbose. Perhaps what he's referring to is not so much people that "code PHP" but people that "get something running" based on existing software or copied and pasted module snippets (like installing Drupal or Wordpress modules). That would seem to me to be more in the realm of running Macros in Excel or Word than actually being a "coder". I seriously doubt that there's anyone who's capable of writing a program from scratch in any language that couldn't learn to do it in any other language.