Originally Posted by brandonstills

It was meant as a joke.

But, in answer to you, would you say that I am on a high horse if I claimed that doing long division with Roman numerals is dumb when you can use Arabic numerals?

I use PHP on a daily basis, have used Ruby on Rails, Lisp, Clojure, Factor, Perl, assembly language, plus many others, and even invented my own programming languages. I use PHP the majority of the time and the reason I use PHP is because I'm more concerned about making money too. It doesn't change the fact that PHP has issues though.

And yes, what language you use does make a difference on what you can code, how fast you can code, and that ultimately means what you can code.

Something that is only a few lines in Prolog could takes over a day and be hundreds of lines in PHP.

Different languages are better suited for different tasks. Even if they are geared towards a specific type of problem that doesn't mean they are actually good at it. Again, if you doubt that try doing long division with roman numerals. They are both used to represent numbers aren't they?

To say that a programming language does not matter is like saying there is no difference between a car, a horse, a plane, and a boat because ultimately they are all vehicles.