“I love Drupal and Joomla, but it’s too bad they’re written in PHP… which is kind of an antique compared to newer stuff like Ruby on Rails… the next generation of cool CMS platforms will probably be running something like Rails, not PHP.”

Normally I would disregard this kind of ignorance but the fact that some people were agreeing with him pissed me off

I began working feverishly on preparing a response to this “media guy”, arming myself mostly with Terry Chay blog posts. In the end I cooled off and decided to write a quick blog post about it.

I won’t defend PHP, as there is plenty of evidence on the web that can do this for me. I just think we should be skeptical when “cool”, “antique”, and “next-generation” are used in the same sentence by social media junkies.