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

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“There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.”

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

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“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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