&#62; <i>the non-stop bashing of [...] PHP [...] from Python developers</i><p>You lost me here. PHP is the favorite flogging-boy language of <i>a lot</i> of developers from a lot of different environments. Trying to peg this solely on Python developers/flamers is disingenuous. You might as well try to claim that Python developers are responsible for all of the Microsoft (and/or .Net/ASP/C#) bashing that goes on around the web.