I hear this stuff all of the time about how PHP fails to the point of destroying an application because of some oddities in the language. As if taking (easy) s

I hear this stuff all of the time about how PHP fails to the point of destroying an application because of some oddities in the language. As if taking (easy) steps to correct these in the application itself is impossible. I don't think that is true. What pisses me off the most about it is that every person that ever mentions this forgets Facebook, one of the biggest players on the Internet, is built on PHP. (Along with Digg, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Photobucket, SourceForge, Flickr, Yahoo, Friendster, Wordpress/derivatives, Magento........). Not that that is the only language they use, but this is a ridiculous claim to say the least. Yeah, PHP has faults. So do most languages - but sometimes those faults are also strengths.