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The 99 bottles of beer song is (was?) a popular programming exercise to teach beginners about loops. Singing it in real life would be pretty annoying because you would essentially repeat the same two sentences for a couple of minutes. Apparently, the PHP developers were planning to order one beer each, sing the song and get on everyone's nerves. The C++ dev stopped this by buying all the remaining beer at once.
The choice of languages is probably OP's own prejudice. These days I'd say PHP devs are on average older and more experienced than JS and Python devs, just because almost nobody learns PHP as their first language anymore.
The joke is, that the php devs force the C++ Dev to buy them all a beer. Pretty sure that's a reference to the nature of the php interpreter being written in C. The C Dev is carrying their water so to speak.
Ok, let's just ignore what language Python and Javascript interpreters are written.
And that C++ is not C.