I use PHP because I love it. I wouldn't consider myself a "drone", I'd like to think I form views on the basis of my own investigation and relatively impartial evidence.
And it's not that I haven't spent the time learning other languages and working with them. I did a degree in Computer Science and have worked for 12 years in the industry, over which time I have learned and worked with Pascal, C++, Ruby, Lisp, Javascript and dealt with a number of other languages. I discovered PHP early on, but only relatively recently have I really taken a shine to it, particularly with the releases over the past few years, and now I won't work with anything else.
I enjoy my job significantly more than I used to because of PHP.
In the main I don't find it a horrible language, I'm aware of its weaknesses and its "problems" (usually not problems per-se, but things it does differently from other comparable languages). But in the main it fits the way I think and work, and I'm incredibly productive (and I like to think that I don't write code that's too shabby either!).
And it's not that I haven't spent the time learning other languages and working with them. I did a degree in Computer Science and have worked for 12 years in the industry, over which time I have learned and worked with Pascal, C++, Ruby, Lisp, Javascript and dealt with a number of other languages. I discovered PHP early on, but only relatively recently have I really taken a shine to it, particularly with the releases over the past few years, and now I won't work with anything else.
I enjoy my job significantly more than I used to because of PHP.
In the main I don't find it a horrible language, I'm aware of its weaknesses and its "problems" (usually not problems per-se, but things it does differently from other comparable languages). But in the main it fits the way I think and work, and I'm incredibly productive (and I like to think that I don't write code that's too shabby either!).