It is comments like this which make me dislike reading the comments of any article with "php" in the title. Not only is it extremely biased, it is presented without any facts or logic to back it up and should be taken as it is given, an opinion.

PHP is an extremely powerful language for building websites and has come along way since it's original release, such as object-orientation, etc.

Admittedly, PHP has many flaws, such as poor error handling (for a newcomer, most veterans in this language know them off by hand and actually find them useful) and poor function naming, some are CamelCase, some are under_scored and some are illegiblyalloneword, but every language has flaws.

This is really the kind of cool-kid attitude which HN doesn't need, it shows a lack of due thought and that you have little to no experience of the language itself, if you had, your comment would have been. "This article was on HN 6 months ago, but, I believe that RoR is better than PHP for these reasons... " and not simple "PHP sucks."

I don't think its really reasonable to say 'X sucks' without taking uses cases into account. While PHP has a number of shortcomings, it is great for things where ruby/rails would be huge waste of time. Build some small brochure websites in rails, and build the same ones in PHP. I bet you'll be done much sooner & deployed more cost effectively using PHP. This might not be the kind of work you aspire to doing, but I think the example still holds.

If you're going to act like a jerk in all your posts, which I actually have no problem with, I'd suggest removing your full name and bio from your HN account 'about' section.

How original.