Putting aside all the horrible choices the language designers made (hellishly inconsistent naming, no proper exception usage by the standard library functions,

Putting aside all the horrible choices the language designers made (hellishly inconsistent naming, no proper exception usage by the standard library functions, functions are not first-class citizens, etc etc etc), the one thing that truly makes PHP revolting are the majority of people who write PHP code. And by the way, if PHP is the only language you know, chances are -- you're one of those developers. The community is so uniquely bad, I ofter wonder if PHP's language design actually has something to do with it. Python/Ruby community is much different.