My favourite part was when Jeff said that his article wasn't another post getting on the PHP hate wagon and then he takes pot-shots at the language, classy. I'd

My favourite part was when Jeff said that his article wasn't another post getting on the PHP hate wagon and then he takes pot-shots at the language, classy. I'd equate Jeff's article to that of squirting a water pistol into the ocean. Everyone knows PHP has some downsides, but it also has its upsides. PHP does have its positives, but of course pointing out the negatives of anything is a sure fire way of getting a response opposed to writing positive things. You can fault every major language, no language is perfect regardless of what anyone else says, JavaScript even has downsides but you'll be hard pressed to find as many hating articles on JavaScript as you would on PHP. PHP is simple to configure and deploy, I can get a client Wordpress site migrated from my local environment to their server all setup and ready to go in less than 5 minutes. I'm tired of the argument of: "Well, I just use Heroku to push my Python and RoR projects live so your argument is invalid" the real issue here is that the only argument haters of PHP have against it being easy to deploy, is using a third party deployment app like Heroku which costs you money as opposed to being able to push a Wordpress site live via SCP or FTP without paying a cent. I think when people hate on PHP they're confusing applications like Wordpress or PHP frameworks with the language itself. Wordpress is not PHP, it's an application built on PHP and we all know WP is poorly written but works this isn't the fault of PHP. Don't like the language? Improve it or shut up. It's like being who complain about the war, but keep voting for the same political party..