I find it a relatively trivial exercise to model my thinking onto any language that I have a relatively broad understanding of, including PHP, Javascript, etc.<p>So it's always confused / annoyed me why folks seem so hell-bent on bashing language 'X' or language 'Y'.<p>Finally I had a moment, where the answer became clear. Those folks are just on a different playing field than the rest of us in the way they (at a fundamental level) receive, and process information / experience phenomena. They're looking at a forest through a microscope.