it's funny how you are demonizing PHP in your comment
He is "demonizing" some "typical PHP programmer". It's not the languages fault that it is allegedly often used by novices to start their first website project, and that by no fault of their own those novices do not have any appreciable CS education and thus build their programs like I build a sandcastle: keep trying random things until it does not fall over anymore.
The argument is exactly to make this difference. There is the technical and somewhat objective aspect of the language and its implementation, and there are the people who created the language, who use the language etc. A bad language can have a great community, and vise versa.
Or maybe we stopped categorically demonizing some technology because of its provenience and started evaluating it based on criteria like usefulness and applicability.
You know, like if we actually take the "engineer" part of "software engineer" seriously instead of using it for everyone who once wrote a PHP page for his uncle.