Why the hatred for PHP?

I never understood this. I have never even seen it until I started using image boards, and people were claiming wakaba was superior then everything else because it was written in perl.

What is so bad about PHP? I've always viewed PHP as a simplistic language that is easy to learn. Apparently there is something extremely wrong with it though, that if you use you are considered an "amateur" programmer.

the fact that PHP only works inside a hypertext tags in a webbrowser kills a lot of potential that it could have. If it worked as a regular stand alone compiler more people would use it.

ie javascript was modified to become actionscript