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Re:Tell HN: "Ruby vs. PHP" is not of interest to good hackers. by jon_dahl on Thursday April 09, 2009 @12:54PM (#554680)
This is fair. For what it's worth, I think PHP kind of sucks, and interesting criticism of any language is worthwhile. I love Steve Yegge's Tour de Babel article (http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/tour-de-babel), and I even generally enjoy Zed's loud criticism of my day-to-day language.

What I don't like is language trolling, which often comes in the form of claiming that one language is better than another. Unless you're looking at a narrow slice of the language (performance, documentation, expressiveness), you can't just say that one language is better than another.

Re:Tell HN: "Ruby vs. PHP" is not of interest to good hackers. by pmjordan on Thursday April 09, 2009 @02:22PM (#554862)
Unless you're looking at a narrow slice of the language[...] you can't just say that one language is better than another.

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html