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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.

Yeah it's oddly disturbing. My thoughts are that they just don't care that much about life anymore to swear in their commits?

> Yeah it's oddly disturbing. My thoughts are that they just don't care that much about life anymore to swear in their commits?

Or maybe we're all just mature enough to realise swearing in comments is stupid, and trying to read anything from it is equally stupid?

It'd be interesting to see the original dataset. At the risk of stereotyping, what's the chances php programmers simply don't leave useful commits? (and perl programmers don't leave anything parsable ..)

Hmm, what's the % of PHP code on github?