I have a pretty broad experience with a lot of languages, and while I wouldn't say I hate any of them to the point of wanting to murder their creators with my b

I have a pretty broad experience with a lot of languages, and while I wouldn't say I hate any of them to the point of wanting to murder their creators with my bare hands in a dark alley behind OSCON, I'd say that there are languages (like PHP) that have annoyed me to the point of never wanting to use them unless I absolutely have to on threat of death or incapacitation. I can get the same thing done in Rails with more sanity and less or equal amounts of code and far less frustration. Or I'd much prefer to never, ever use Java again beyond certain very specific tasks; that's largely because I can use a large number of languages for the same task these days. If I need performance, there's always C or C# is cross platform, as is Scheme, Objective-C, etc.; if I need to work with some Java library, there are languages like Scala and JRuby that are much more pleasant. So, for me at least, my "hatred" of languages comes from finding better alternatives that "knock the shine off" the previously used language, if you will. Progress showing the failings of the past perhaps?