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PHP was thrown together as a side project by a Canadian in '93 for his own homepage, and released on Usenet. It grew out of control.
Now it's like the Russian language of the internet--every programmer speaks it, but we all aggressively pretend not to.
And with good reason! But that don't change that we know it.
I think PHP has a bad rep 'cos it tried to be everything to everyone... if you maintain a certain standard (i.e. always do the same thing the same way) and avoid deviating it's actually a pretty cool language.
Personally I love it because it runs on everything. Its syntax is very far from perfect though.