> 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."