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Re:Higher Order PHP by apgwoz on Friday February 06, 2009 @02:02PM (#470160)
My employer tends tends to upgrade to the latest stable release of PHP, so when PHP 5.3 comes up, we'll be upgrading. Since I rarely use PHP outside of work, this still will be worthwhile for me.

But, you're right. Significant changes in incremental releases like this makes it difficult for people to adopt, and I doubt that someone will bother backporting closures to a PHP 5.2.x release, like might be done in something like Python (from __future__ ... )

As for PHP 4 support, I thought that even Zend was done supporting it? Why is it still around?

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Re:Higher Order PHP by nuclear_eclipse on Friday February 06, 2009 @03:42PM (#470320)
> "As for PHP 4 support, I thought that even Zend was done supporting it? Why is it still around?"

Because there are still some applications and frameworks that do not support PHP4, either because no-one is working on them, or because certain incompatibilities between 4 and 5 would cause too much of the codebase to need to be rewritten. Sad but true.

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