> I think PHP gets a bad rep because there is a lot of bad code out there and people blame the language for the bad code Where do you get the idea that people

> I think PHP gets a bad rep because there is a lot of bad code out there and people blame the language for the bad code Where do you get the idea that people judge a language based on other people's code in it, and not on their own experience of using it? My experience is quite the opposite -- I can't remember the last time I looked at anybody else's PHP code, my hatred of it comes entirely from using it myself, and comparing it to other languages which I've also used myself.