Well, I'd have something to say...

1. PHP 5 is very close to it (although I don't know much about C++/Java way of "object oriented", but I suppose there's not a big difference from what I've seen).
2. every programming language "encourages sloppy code". That depends and differs from one programmer to another.
4. I would say a 10.000 line PHP application runs much more faster (that is parsed, compiled and ran) than an equally long C++ application is compiled (only compiled, not ran).
5. Perhaps Eclipse and Zend are just common text editors, then, and XDebug is their child.
6. not always true. an object-oriented php application doesn't look at all like a procedural php application.
7. perhaps or perhaps not. PHP, although, does require a lot of concentration and will to learn and then work with it, because of the multitude of the additional languages it can work with (like SQL, HTML, JavaScript and such).
8. that I agree with. But then again, that's what it was created for.
9. check (2)
10. no, it is not, if you think a bit (just a bit) before writing an application.

Probably the one who wrote this article has something against PHP or hasn't worked with it, otherwise I can't explain why COMMON programming issues are presented here.

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