first, the creator of PHP is Rasmus Lerdorf, someone I know quite well from IRC
second, the reason i wrote it in php was so that it wouldn't require recompilation for testing (a very good feature) and because i know php much better than i know c/c++... so there were obvious reasons there
i actually would prefer to keep it in php, but as it's GPL'd, you may to whatever you want to it.
Lates,
Cody Brocious
(Daeken M. BlackBlade)