Here’s an easy guide you can use to troll any programming language community. IRC channels, forums, whatever. Your success may vary.
Prerequisites: Some understanding of programming languages and related concepts.
- Start by bashing some language. PHP is a pretty easy target and you can pull all sorts of issues with it with a few quick google searches. Security issues are generally pretty easy for this, or syntax or OOP, or lack/poor implementation of some programming paradigm.
- At this point you can counter any arguments by pulling some functional or academic language and claiming if language you chose for #1 was not created by an idiot, it would not have any issues, like the language you chose for this point.
- Namedrop Dijkstra or some other well known computer scientist.
- Insult the intelligence of someone participating in the discussion. Claim it is not an insult.
At this point if the community does not have anyone around who actually knows anything about this stuff, you should be well off to pissing off many people!
Remember to be vague enough so that your actual lack of knowledge in above points is not obvious.
Loosely based on a common pattern I’ve seen used by trolls on several IRC channels. Enjoy! :D