PHP Considered Harmful?

Tim Bray's got an interesting discussion regarding use of PHP for building websites. PHP is easy to learn, and one can throw together PHP code to dynamically generate a web page pretty quickly. But that's also the problem -- there's lots of bad, thrown-together PHP code out there. How much of it is due to the language vs. those using it? Personally, I love using PHP, and agree with the others who say it's up to the programmer to write good code or bad. It takes a lot of discipline to write maintainable, production-quality PHP. Kind of like the old days of BASIC.