If I had to guess I'd say it's fear of the unknown combined with a reluctance to embrace new ideas on some subconscious level.
You should give Ruby or Python a shot as an alternative. C# comes with all the .Net baggage, it's a whole different game, and Java is far too enterprise for someone living in PHP-land.
There are things that are stupidly easy to do in Ruby and Python that are virtually impossible to do in PHP, and these are things you do all the time. PHP's feeble list transformation routines, which are a fundamental operation in even Perl, are a huge problem.
If you think PHP is fun, you would love a well designed language.
You should give Ruby or Python a shot as an alternative. C# comes with all the .Net baggage, it's a whole different game, and Java is far too enterprise for someone living in PHP-land.
There are things that are stupidly easy to do in Ruby and Python that are virtually impossible to do in PHP, and these are things you do all the time. PHP's feeble list transformation routines, which are a fundamental operation in even Perl, are a huge problem.
If you think PHP is fun, you would love a well designed language.