&gt; PHP is the language many people love to hate<p>Do you think there&#x27;s a reason for that? Maybe a direct one? That it&#x27;s a bad language for example? Why would it need to be anything more complicated than that.<p>So I don&#x27;t think your guess is accurate. It&#x27;s simply a bad language on its own. No need to compare it to anything.  And I don&#x27;t think anyone can deny that, no one will honestly say that &quot;php is a good language&quot;. You can say it has some good features, or that it&#x27;s good for certain tasks, or perhaps that it&#x27;s better.. but that&#x27;s all.