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Re:The Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management a... by wvenable on Monday December 26, 2016 @08:19PM (#13260689)
PHP4 to PHP5 was almost as big of a deal as Python2 to Python3. In fact, while I have PHP5 code that can easily ported to PHP7 -- I still have PHP4 code that will be forever on PHP4.

Because of this, PHP developers strive to avoid this kind of large breakage. Instead it's a smooth stream of deprecation and removals/changes and really large changes (like native unicode strings) have been non-starters.

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Re:The Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management a... by gkop on Monday December 26, 2016 @11:15PM (#13261241)
I might be misguided, but the last time I used PHP was over ten years ago, using PHP3, and we had to name the files my_file.php3 in order to use PHP3. That's the opposite of minimal breakage. On the other hand, my simple PHP3 scripts continue to work to this day, php3 extension and all!
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Re:The Linux 2.5, Ruby 1.9 and Python 3 release management a... by wvenable on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @01:30AM (#13261638)
That's just how your server was/is configured.
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