"The PHP Community" comprises massive swaths of developers, from people who have a hard time caring about things like "namespaces" and "encapsulation" to people who think and breath those concepts on a daily basis. It would be disingenuous to make such broad-sweeping and baseless statements about the entirety of a group of people.
Please don't get confused and paint everybody so broadly, it damages us all. There are many people working hard to improve the language and create a more modern environment around PHP.
Right, which is why the Ruby and Python threads just tend to get ignored -- because everyone in those communities already knows everything about everything... (especially PHP)
