One obvious problem looking at your list is that PHP is ranked so low. This is likely due to the fact that most discussions on this site are not about PHP, but PHP frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, Zend, etc.
Nobody said all.. and your link is just some guy's rant. He mentions at the end that he doesn't have any conclusions and he just assumes that people who read the article agree with him.
Sure, PHP has it's faults, but as your article points out, it's designed to give people who aren't full time programmers tools with which to build websites or scripts to perform tasks, and there is a large market for that sort of thing.
That PHP has gone through major changes matters, and I agree that newer versions of PHP are huge improvements, but I don't think that response is an adequate rebuttal of the Fractal of Bad Design article. The "rebuttal" is closer to apologetics, and it starts out by basically denying the idea that language design matters.
Admittedly, the author of that post lost me pretty early on when he said that languages don't need to be predictable, it's on developers to learn everything about how and why a language implemented things they way they're implemented, and complaining just means you're lazy. Sorry, but when I can guess at syntax in Python or Ruby and be right(because the languages were designed to be predictable and consistent), I don't want to consult arcane documentation in PHP to figure out why things don't work the way I expect them to work.
The author is also pretty rude and flippant, often when he's not even right. He ignores things like the Fractal author explicitly saying that Wikipedia and Facebook have very smart developers, so he can say that the PHP "community of amateurs" comment was about those developers. Pretty disingenous.
He repeatedly complains that the author "doesn't understand" "loosely typed" languages, but never considers that maybe the author understands them but thinks they're bad design, hence the whole "fractal of bad design" in the name of the post?
