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I became interested in computer science initially with PHP. It had a low barrier to entry and worked rather well for solving the problems at hand. Now that I've worked with C#, Java, C++, and Ruby I can say that PHP still very much exists in my toolkit (and is used), but has become a tool that I rarely reach for. The bashing that PHP gets, it often deserves. However, I've come to accept that all languages have their pros and cons.

PHP is good for what it is. I absolutely love it, and, like I said in the article, owe a majority of my success to it.

PHP is an awful language because it has tons upon tons of quirks... pretty much like Javascript. Sometimes, I am able to find it amusing that most of the web is built on them.

The difference is in real life, nobody has to maintain said "screw driver." Your metaphor is not sound sir!