I have no idea why the above was downvoted, because it's absolutely true. The more that smart programmers like the language you're using, the more smart progra

I have no idea why the above was downvoted, because it's absolutely true. The more that smart programmers like the language you're using, the more smart programmers you can hire. So if smart programmers hate PHP, there will be less of them to work on a PHP project. Paul has a whole essay on this exact topic: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html