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5.3 and 5.4 had significant performance increases. 5.5 has integrated opcode cache. IMO, PHP has one of the best documentations of any programming language. Many bad bits have been deprecated in recent versions and there are PSR recommendations which make it easier to write decent interoperable code. PHP is growing up.

However, if you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to use it. Just walk away.

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I find the people doing the moaning about PHP are the noobs who are regurgitating what they read or heard elsewhere in order to appear smart, Having moved to PHP 10 years ago after C and Java and .NET development I am happy for having changed direction and have made a bootload of money and saved alot of time thanks to PHP over the years.

Great response, i love the PHP documentation. Writing clean PHP is not hard, its just easy to write bad PHP. In general it is one of the simplest languages to get started with and it'll stick with you a very long time because of its flexibility.

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