If one is actually talking about getting web work done, vs. religion, then PHP does deserve some praise ... before being taken out in front of the wall at dawn, and shot. ;-) Most of us have to admit that we have some responsibility somewhere for some big PHP monstrosity, probably written in some (equally monstrous ...) PHP version that is no longer being maintained anymore, but which remains in service (and locked in limbo) because someone on the PHP team decided to make some feature of the language “–er” in some incompatible way.
Nevertheless, what they do with their tool is their concern, not Perl’s. At the end of the day, they’re all just ... tools ... and we probably use many of them, before returning, with a gentle sigh of relief (and perhaps a nip of fine cognac), to ... Perl. :-D