There's still the problem of tutorials: There are tons of bad tutorials out there that teach people to write insecure, sloppy, and un-substantive code. The resu

There's still the problem of tutorials: There are tons of bad tutorials out there that teach people to write insecure, sloppy, and un-substantive code. The result is a plethora of bad PHP programmers who don't seem to understand seemingly simple concepts like global variables. And much of the practices that result from it are considered idiomatic. Some of the error messages that PHP spits out are incomprehensible at best, and misleading at worst. Broken code quickly becomes a nightmare. And frankly, the fact that Rasmus Lerdorf doesn't like programming shows pretty well in the language. His incompetence is all over its "design."