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.