"PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?"

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“I do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable.”

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“PHP 8 is significantly better because it contains a lot less of my code.”

“I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers.”

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