> You are asking the wrong question to experience the true and honest hate > that PHP, and people skilled in PHP, expose. > > The *real* question is why someone would write a PHP script to do this: [...]
No, the real question is why someone would write a compiled C program to do more or less the same thing. Including things like: /* system("sleep 10"); */ system("sleep 5"); You can tell exactly what the programmer was thinking from comments like that. (yes, yes, I know, quirk's objection applies) "I'm not making this up, you know."