PHP, Flame Wars and Me

With the philosophasters of LI blasting PHP with their corybantic mails several (three to be precise) people asked my why I did not defend PHP. Well just for the same reasons that I dont defend my religion.

Besides, why me? Who am I? I am a good PHP coder, fine! BUT that is it, that no way implies that I have to be the knight in shining armour rushing to defend the cause of PHP right into the heart of every flame war that takes place on Indian list.

No way!!

One, PHP does not need that kind of advocacy, and consequently two, I dont have that kind of time to waste.

  • PHP

    Now you see why I quit from LI. These totally meaningless discussions there, with absolute points of view and no flexibility, with a tendency to degrade into personal attacks, make the LI lists a complete farce, and are totally non-representative of what Linux is really all about.

    We all know what kind of worksman blames his tools. But to *then* go and propagate such ridiculous ideas that some *other* medium (in this case perl) is *better* than the subject of discussion makes the whole concept of choice sound so hollow that I can safely say that if there is *one* thing that holds back Linux in India, it is Linux India.