Do people still dislike PHP?
<p>I've ran across a number of topics on this particular exchange site, and I've seen many many comments "stop using php" and making fun of it. I'm a php user and I find it quite good and useful, I've never had some real problems with php itself, and I never thought that php encourages bad code.</p>

<p>I have seen some terrible code. But why blame the language? I mean it's not like PHP is some kind of ol-procedural style pile of mess people describe it to be. By looking at PHP frameworks, I don't really see any mess or bad code there.</p>

<p>So do these people hate PHP because of the past (procedural mess) or do they discredit OOP and popular MVC frameworks too (not fully OOP, not like Java and stuff) ?</p>

<p>I'm not very experienced in programming and I'm not saying PHP is awesome or anything, but I've seen some Python/Java/C# and I don't see how PHP is so messy vs them.</p>

<p>What is your take on this?</p>
