This goes along with my observations, having read a lot of PHP code. There's a certain level of professionalism in PHP projects, believe it or not, that is dif

This goes along with my observations, having read a lot of PHP code. There's a certain level of professionalism in PHP projects, believe it or not, that is different from what you see in Ruby, Python, C++, etc. The difference? Many PHP programmers are not really hackers, they're just trying to get something done. They're not programming for the joy of it, for the most part, they're just trying to get some plug-in done for a CMS for some client. The code and comments often end up structured and informational, in a Java kind of way.