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.

PHP is shit stacked on shit. This is not a generic insult, I literally mean what it says. The security is bad, and it doesn't help that PHP programmers are usually terrible programmers in general so they'd probably be unsafe in any programming environment anyways.

OP, you should learn Perl. It's not hard at all. It has strict mode!