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I can't believe that this is a real thing. The fact that a (purportedly) serious language runtime designed for web applications would have this in it seems like a staggering breach of professionalism.

In my opinion using PHP is a staggering breach of professionalism.

Would you visit a dentist that used tools as bad as PHP? "Hey, it's not about the tools," they'd scream while you're running away.

Per the docs[1], this can be turned off in the ini by setting expose_php to Off. So if you tell PHP to hide its presence, it will do so.

1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.expose-php

Try it on Facebook; I guess that means HipHop must not be 100% real PHP. :-)