I think you can write good software in any language. Moreover, PHP is a powerful language, in its last versions at least, it's just that the way it has been dev

I think you can write good software in any language. Moreover, PHP is a powerful language, in its last versions at least, it's just that the way it has been developped would make anyone serious about programming language developpment vomit. But that's not really a problem. I guess the problem is not that good devs can't code in PHP. And when they focus on the task at hand, they might not even notice. Because PHP has everything you need. I'd prefer coding a website in PHP than in Java, C, or C++, because PHP is dynamic, has first class functions and the kind of stuff you need to be expressive. One of the problems is that if you think too hard about the fact that the language you use is suboptimal, it will affect the pleasure you take from doing your job. The other problem is that a lot of PHP code is really horrible, so people have grown to associate PHP with bad code.