PHP changed a lot since its early days. To the point where anything old would be considered bad practice by contemporary ecosystem point of view. So duration is

PHP changed a lot since its early days. To the point where anything old would be considered bad practice by contemporary ecosystem point of view. So duration is not all. Comparatively, C seems to have stick to the same idiom all the way. That's not to praise C style form here to be clear, which is ridiculously obfuscating and feeling like pointless collection of linguistic awkward atrocities. But at least it's consistent in doing it.