Generally valid, but it'd be better to qualify that assessment by saying that "some languages are better than others at certain things." e.g. for a PHP one cou

Generally valid, but it'd be better to qualify that assessment by saying that "some languages are better than others at certain things." e.g. for a PHP one could fairly state "it's great if you're new to programming and want to spend a few hours figuring out how to get a web page up and running. But don't spend any more time than that with it, please." or for JS: "yes it has serious flaws, but overall it's not as bad as you first think, especially if you read Crockford's book. The bigger point is that it's welded to the browser platform for the time being, and most likely will be for quite some time. So if you want to do frontend stuff, you have to at least be OK with it." You see, it's all about context.