# Why so untyped?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-so-untyped/302839>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [January 8, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-so-untyped/302839 "2010-01-08T10:43:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![IQAndreas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f08c70/32.png) [@IQAndreas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/IQAndreas)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-so-untyped/302839/1 "2010-01-08T10:43:28Z")

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Looks like I’m responsible for most of the population of the server side threads… :shifty: Sorry…

I personally \*\*hate \*\*being untyped. I feel so dirty… But, from what I here, PHP \*\*is \*\*able to use typed values and typed parameters.

Still, why are there still **so many people** who don’t use typed values and parameters in php? At least 90% of all the code examples are untyped? Does it add any overhead or slow down execution? Are PHP developers just lazy?