Often when someone says a particular programming language is bad, they are referring more to the common practice associated with that language than the language itself. Many times they are really complaining about their own poor programming habits more than the specific language. Sometimes these habits are shared by the entire culture built around a particular language.
Perl is a good example of this. People complain about how difficult it is to read and then proceed to write awful unreadable code. Perl can be very readable, but its terseness makes it easy for people to write huge lines of code that do 10 or 11 different things. You can do the same thing in Java, but most people try to avoid a single line that is 500 characters long because it is a pain to scroll back and forth sideways to read the code.
Sometimes the lack of a particular restriant can inspire horrible code.
Well, a programmer is programmer, regardless of the language being used. I doesn’t matter which language you are using, as long as you deliver a functional software!!