Setting aside my own biases on the subject and giving the OP the benefit of the doubt, perhaps the OP feels that PHP is some kind of local maximum of some characteristic that makes languages good for the lives of programmers, but s/he feels there are much greater nearby local maxima. Perhaps the OP doesn't hate PHP as much as s/he hates that some programmers haven't found greater productivity/peace/enlightenment/whatever because they're locally maximizing and have settled into the local maximum of PHP, which s/he feels is much below nearby local maxima. In this view, the lives of programmers would be better if the PHP local maximum did not exist. I'm intentionally not commenting on the validity of this view.

Playing devil's advocate, perhaps it's even noble to hate a non-sentient thing which one believes impedes the progress of sentient things.