Gollum is not a Troll

Thanks for this entertaining post. Using PHP for web projects for several years now, I can only say that it never disappointed me, and I agree that there is no reason to talk bad about PHP.

If you don't like PHP, then you can always select a different web based programming language and get brilliant results.

I had a tough time when starting with PHP by understanding that 0 == '' evaluates to TRUE and that the order of parameters can be kind of unpredictable but once I understood the basic concepts and got some good editors with code completion I found it a very versatile language.

I was puzzled that in this original Quora post, the One Ring was associated to C. If somebody wanted to rule the world then it was Microsoft, so I think that C# or .NET fits better.

So, humble PHP programmer, if you do not want to share the fate of Smeagol (who was a Hobbit and never a Troll) and do not want to turn into Gollum then stay away from .NET

You are right. I meant Gollum is a troll in the sense that he bugs people that he envies due to the fact that they have a deep desire to have.

PHP has attention. Some developers that prefer other languages keep trolling PHP because they like to also have the attention PHP has.

I am not sure if any Microsoft product is loved these days by anybody besides those that only work with Microsoft products. Maybe Java would be a better candidate than C# because it is meant to be platform agnostic.

Anyway, I think C makes more sense to be The One True Ring because in C you have have access practically to anything machines can do. In Java or C# you cannot access hardware memory directly. You always need to some C or C++ bridge code. For instance, CUDA is mostly based in C++.