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

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

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“I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.”

“Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen”

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

“We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all.”

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