generated in 0.183 seconds 54788 bytes batcached for 300 seconds wraithan Skip to content Home About .site-navigation .main-navigation #masthead .site-header Posted on July 26, 2014 by Wraithan (Chris McDonald) .entry-meta .entry-header I was at a meetup recently, and one of the organizers was giving a talk. They come across some PHP in the demo they are doing, and crack a joke about how bad PHP is. The crowd laughs and cheers along with the joke. This isn’t an isolated incident, it happens during talks or discussions all the time. That doesn’t mean it is acceptable. When I broke into the industry, my first gig was writing Perl, Java, and PHP. All of these languages have stigmas around them these days. Perl has its magic and the fact that only neckbeard sysadmins write it. Java is the ‘I just hit tab in my IDE and the code writes itself!’ and other comments o...