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I was caught off guard by the first line, where the author uses PHP as one of the examples of an environment out-of-touch with hardware issues.

I started to learn how to program in PHP. Back then there was a sentiment that PHP and similar high level scripting languages weren't real programming.

With the web so ubiquitous today, I didn't that sentiment had survived, but here it is.

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Simply because you may be an exception, it doesn't disprove the general case. Many self taught programmers (which php brought a rush of) lack programming fundamentals. They are blissfully unaware of the implications of the Von Neumann architecture, and don't understand how their actions translate down the various layers that support their code. If this was written 10 years ago, the author would have likely cited Perl, or VB.

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