>you haven't convinced anyone for either your eloquence or your argumentative skills.

Even in this thread,

https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/41bm7j/new_rfc_allow_s...

even when the language shows its true color in front of their very own eyes, people continue to be in denial. (See arguments of /u/betterphpguy).

I don't bother to polish my arguments regarding this, because I know how futile it really is. A programmer who "likes" or Php cannot be convinced otherwise by arguments. If he/she is lucky, their own experience with the language and outside of it, will take them to that realisation.

I do this only for the benefit of any newcomer who might come across these thread, and might think that Php is on par with the other languages.

Part of growing up is not caring for BS like this, because you can find this, and even worse caveats in any popular language (and worse stuff in non populars).

You will also realize that such caveats never prevented people from creating billion dollar companies with PHP (or C++, or JS, etc), and perfectly workable code, powering 40% of the internet.

The rest are child games.

We've banned these accounts for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines.