There is truth to the original argument by Michael Braude if viewed from the intended perspective. The problem is that the intended perspective is very narrow and is in fact outlined in its entirety in the statement itself. (The web guys he is referring to are not all web guys, just the ones who don't understand his tenacious albeit very basic list of programming techniques, and more importantly the ones who copy and paste all their code from MSDN tutorials). You add a little bit of resentment and pride into the mix and this is what you get.