[FuzzyDunlop]

It does matter when you have to work on an existing PHP project that makes throwing yourself off a bridge seem an attractive proposition.

Yeah, it's not entirely the language that is to blame - the language didn't design and code the project after all - but its own design makes it too easy to create stuff that will really punish more seasoned developers later on.

That it powers some popular products or websites isn't entirely relevant, unless we're saying that Wordpress, Wikipedia, Facebook, etc. are popular because they were written in PHP.