I didn't mean to imply anything. One of the best (and richest) programmers I know prefers PHP. I just don't think it's necessarily the case that you become good simply because you started programming when you were 16.

My comment wasn't great because I also didn't mean that having a CS degree makes you good. What makes you good is practice on hard problems, and a certain amount of "je ne sais quoi."

PHP is only 15 years old ;-)

Depends if you have also used other languages, I mainly code in PHP, but also have experience in other languages. I would say though you would develop a stack of bad habits if PHP was first and only language someone used.