> Virtues of PHP

> First, state. Every web request starts from a completely blank slate.

> Second, concurrency. An individual web request runs in a single PHP thread.

> Finally, the fact that PHP programs operate at a request level

Isn't this just "virtues of Apache modules"?

There's mod_python, mod_perl, and mod_ruby. Are state, concurrency, and global requests virtues of these languages too?

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Even if you do somehow convince me that these virtues are specific to PHP, you can't convince me it does it well. Hence, MaxRequestsPerChild.

To quote Radmus Lerdorf,

> 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.

Clean slate, my eye.