PHP is rarely the bottleneck.
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?
I’m not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you’re leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.
I don’t like programming. It’s tedious.
I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.
I’ve never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.
When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.
Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard.