1) his comment was a reasonable paraphrase. 2) if you'd said "many" instead of "most" your later points would hold better. What basis, aside from hopefulness,

1) his comment was a reasonable paraphrase. 2) if you'd said "many" instead of "most" your later points would hold better. What basis, aside from hopefulness, do you have for assuming that most people who have a bias against php haven't used it? After HTML, CSS, and JavaScript it is the most ubiquitous language for the web: ergo, most web people have probably had exposure to it. My bias: I hate php. I've deployed a few dozen sites that use it over the years.