You know, it would be interesting to do some statistics on which languages people vote down based on which languages they vote up. For instance, people that vote ruby up, most likely will dislike PHP, but not always the other way around.

But anyhow, my opinion is that all languages are tools that help you to built something or reach a certain goal. While some languages are easier or more fun to program with, if what you are trying to build already exists in a different language it's not always wise to recreate it just because language x sucks.