It feels so bad to rag on PHP. I mean, it has myriad sins against man and nature, but so do most languages. But its central ethos of "make programming democrati

It feels so bad to rag on PHP. I mean, it has myriad sins against man and nature, but so do most languages. But its central ethos of "make programming democratic" has managed to create a community of mediocrity. Obviously there's always the valid rejoinder "every language have good and bad programmers," but the tolerance and even the generation of the bad is so much higher in PHP. To the author of the article: move higher. Whenever you feel like you're in the top third of programmers at the place you work, it's time to move on.