My first language was Pascal. I'd like to think I learned good habits up front. But I'll fully admit, when I first started writing PHP, I definitely treated it as a "script". My code barely used functions at first. It was a big top-down autoexec.bat style recipe. It took quite awhile for me to come around to treating PHP like a real programming language. I think a lot of it came from the fact that I'd edit, and refresh the browser page. Whereas with Turbo Pascal, I'd save my work, and compile. Once I did come around to writing more application-style with PHP, I was more interested in other things (Java and Ruby at the time)