Do one thing, and do it well. Don’t be afraid of multiple apps. Write for flexibility. Build to distribute.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Brian W. Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language and the "K" in "AWK"

This is because the PHP language was written for mod_php.