Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years

I really could do without "considered harmful" titles. x86 has been one of the most influential technologies of all time and a clickbait title doesn't do it justice imo.

So were PHP and goto statements.

How influential something is has nothing to do with how good it is.

The PHP bashing on this site is untenable. PHP has no intrinsic properties which stop a good programmer from writing elegant code for web applications. It's a tired discussion, I know, but the most you can say is that it's frequently abused. The oft cited "Spectacle of bad design" essay has been credibly rebutted point-by-point by other authors.

Actually, if you start with good measurements, many clear reasons appear that PHP is a terrible language. A nice write-up is here:

http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

It's amazing how much has been done in what was essentially a pile of hacks on top of a pre-processor making it pretend to be an application language. That pro's avoid it and its wiser users almost always leave it eventually further corroborates the author that it's fundamentally bad. If anything, it's one option among better ones (Python, Ruby) for non-programmers to get started in web apps. Little reason to use it at this point with all the 3rd party components and communities around better languages.