100% agree that humility is important. And realising that at young age is great :) However, with over 25 yrs dev experience, I do believe its true that Java is verbose (and some of its frameworks hideously so), and PHP is inelegant. Both languages have improved a lot over the years, thanks to a bunch of smart people working on them. Having now decided your opinions were premature, you may one day come to the same conclusion based on experience. Python, OTOH, well, that's a lot of fun. Has its issues, but, overall nice to develop with.