Maybe I am just too old and tired, but current PHP has nothing to do with original PHP, version by version it changed direction and the last versions are just yak shaving.
I strongly believe that a programming language should be stable over a longer period of time while bug fixes and behind the scene improvements are fine, but for the developer it should not be a moving target, the manual should not triple in size and developers that know very well version x-1 should have zero problems with version x. There is a huge cost of change and if some people don't care, real life does.
I strongly believe that a programming language should be stable over a longer period of time while bug fixes and behind the scene improvements are fine, but for the developer it should not be a moving target, the manual should not triple in size and developers that know very well version x-1 should have zero problems with version x. There is a huge cost of change and if some people don't care, real life does.