That was my gut feeling as well although PHP seems to walk the line pretty well...but it doesn't seem to attract the most talented developers. I wasn't sure if that was because of deficiency's with the language or because of the saturation of components (many below par) for sale.
Do you really see all that many paid PHP components? I've run across very few. Most of PHP's quality code tends to be wrapped up in frameworks, and anyone new to programming or PHP in general has the unfortunate task of dealing with something like WordPress or mediocre/outdated tutorials without much guidance.
