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Comment by guelo | Hacker News Reader

There are reasons that PHP is better than Ruby but instead of pointing those out this article chose to:

  1. focus on some of the ways that Ruby is better than PHP
  2. lie about the topic in the title
  3. have an annoying sarcastic tone throughout.

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You're familiar with the idea of satire, right?

The fact that something is a joke doesn't automatically exempt it from criticism. If a joke is making a point, it still needs to make the point well. Even if a joke is just meant to be funny, it still needs to, you know, be funny.

This "satire" is merely stating his point backwards, not cleverly exposing hidden flaws in an idea. Nobody touts the inconsistency of PHP's standard library as a strength of the language. Not many people even claim that PHP is better than Ruby. The positions he purports to make fun of aren't real. He's beating a dead unicorn.

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