Via Coding Horror:
I’ve written both VB and PHP code, and in my opinion the comparison is grossly unfair to Visual Basic. Does PHP suck? Of course it sucks. […] If you sit down to program in PHP and have even an ounce of programming talent in your entire body, there’s no possible way to draw any other conclusion. It’s inescapable.
An interesting read. I can’t argue with the inherent problems listed in the article against PHP. It’s no wonder that frameworks like Symfony have emerged to help give structure and elegance to PHP.