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EvilTerran on June 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity

Surely that'd be

"Ex-PHP developers that bash PHP programmers are like the poor kids that win the lottery and then start bashing poor people publicly."

or

"Ex-PHP developers that bash PHP are like the poor kids that win the lottery and then start bashing being poor publicly."

? Very different, IMO.

will_work4tears on June 29, 2012 [–]

The first one. I think the language is pretty fair game. However, the bashing seems to carry on over to the programmer often enough.

EvilTerran on June 29, 2012 | [–]

Yeah, it's a fine line between just bashing a tool and bashing its users as well. I feel the submission came down on the bashing-the-tool-only side, but that's a judgement call.

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