The reasons why many hackers (including myself) dislike PHP are totally irrelevant to its merits as a teaching language. I don't like the type system, I don't

The reasons why many hackers (including myself) dislike PHP are totally irrelevant to its merits as a teaching language. I don't like the type system, I don't like how OOP is seemingly an afterthought, I don't like the mishmash of syntax or the irregularities in function naming. These are fine reasons for a programmer to eschew it, but I can't see how they would be a hindrance to anyone learning the concepts of programming.