If all your friends jumped off a bridge while programming in COBOL, would you follow them?
If Visual Basic was a popular language, did that make it good?
Maybe PHP Addiction is real: http://www.marco.org/2012/06/29/php-addiction. It does seem like its users will go out of their way to defend their choice, as if it really matters what anyone else thinks. Jeff Atwood didn't really rant on PHP so much as link to another rant and lament that there aren't any decent alternatives that are as easy for the rest of the world to deploy. He even called for us to quit whining about PHP's shortcomings and do something about it.
Why is that suggestion so offensive? What's wrong with trying to advance the state of the art of Web development?
Did anyone attacking this "rant" actually read the whole thing first?
If Visual Basic was a popular language, did that make it good?
Maybe PHP Addiction is real: http://www.marco.org/2012/06/29/php-addiction. It does seem like its users will go out of their way to defend their choice, as if it really matters what anyone else thinks. Jeff Atwood didn't really rant on PHP so much as link to another rant and lament that there aren't any decent alternatives that are as easy for the rest of the world to deploy. He even called for us to quit whining about PHP's shortcomings and do something about it.
Why is that suggestion so offensive? What's wrong with trying to advance the state of the art of Web development?
Did anyone attacking this "rant" actually read the whole thing first?