Every time someone does that, the argument gets derailed into talking about the other language and into a not-actually-related argument about its problems and the relative merits of the two languages and so on. You've seen it happen a zillion times. When the article is just a headshot on PHP, it's easier to get the point of "don't use PHP, use anything else" and PHP ... "apologists," like folks upthread, can't derail it into talking about the problems with Python/Ruby/whatever.