PHP makes it possible for people to use it poorly, yes. Blame bad developers, not the language that lets them write bad code. If I want to write a widget that

PHP makes it possible for people to use it poorly, yes. Blame bad developers, not the language that lets them write bad code. If I want to write a widget that a majority of designers can easily plug into their own sites, I write it in PHP, because it's portable. Maybe that makes me an amateur, but sometimes I can't just code in the pretty, pure languages all day.