"What we ought to be talking about is not how terrible PHP is – although its continued terribleness is a particularly damning indictment – but how we programmers can culturally displace a deeply flawed tool with a better one. How do we encourage new programmers to avoid picking up the double clawed hammer in favor of, well, a regular hammer?" ..By informing them of why PHP is to be avoided, like Eevee's blog did. And then subsequent posts on how to get started on Python (There are similar posts for other languages as well.)