I voted for PHP - it was the first "web" language I ever learnt.
I'm not going to hate on it for all its foibles, like the $ before variables and the jumble of functions that constitute its standard library which totally lacks any and all kinds of namespacing.
The real reason behind why I hate it, is because as a newbie, it let me do things that are now, in hindsight, terrible practices. Things like including mixing code and markup outright, placing source in public facing directories, and not to mention the myriad PHP tutorials which encourage handling paths using simple concatenation.
A better language, I feel, is one that 'pushes' against things that are wrong, and makes them harder to do.
I'd also have voted for Java if I could, for no other reason than its verbosity.
I'm not going to hate on it for all its foibles, like the $ before variables and the jumble of functions that constitute its standard library which totally lacks any and all kinds of namespacing.
The real reason behind why I hate it, is because as a newbie, it let me do things that are now, in hindsight, terrible practices. Things like including mixing code and markup outright, placing source in public facing directories, and not to mention the myriad PHP tutorials which encourage handling paths using simple concatenation.
A better language, I feel, is one that 'pushes' against things that are wrong, and makes them harder to do.
I'd also have voted for Java if I could, for no other reason than its verbosity.
ps. If you're wondering, I like Python most.