Agreed. The "largely irrelevant" point I think is key. Just about every PHP pitfall is avoidable when employing best practices (something that is encouraged for

Agreed. The "largely irrelevant" point I think is key. Just about every PHP pitfall is avoidable when employing best practices (something that is encouraged for all languages anyway). We see the same thing with JavaScript and C++ (to a lesser extent) because some developers are simply afraid that a less experienced programmer might commit the sin of using the "bad parts", as if Python and Ruby transform careless career programmers into artisans.