> I used PHP for five years professionally, I consider myself as well positioned as many to have an informed opinion about PHP weaknesses and strengths.
Yeah, that doesn't mean anything. In fact, to be frank, when I read that, I fill in the underlying context:
"I used PHP for fives years professionally, and the code was horrible. Granted, it was code I wrote because PHP let me write code that way..."
or
"I used PHP for fives years professionally, almost a decade ago..."
> I remember we had even built a code checker that was forbiding the use of many php functions and syntax, and had a set of wrappers around basic functionalities like string functions or date functions.
Yeah, that didn't do much to change my mind.
Yeah, that doesn't mean anything. In fact, to be frank, when I read that, I fill in the underlying context:
"I used PHP for fives years professionally, and the code was horrible. Granted, it was code I wrote because PHP let me write code that way..."
or
"I used PHP for fives years professionally, almost a decade ago..."
> I remember we had even built a code checker that was forbiding the use of many php functions and syntax, and had a set of wrappers around basic functionalities like string functions or date functions.
Yeah, that didn't do much to change my mind.