Some of these complaints don't even make sense: He doesn't like the lack of strict mode, but complains that E_ALL tells him too much; maybe it's telling him to

Some of these complaints don't even make sense: He doesn't like the lack of strict mode, but complains that E_ALL tells him too much; maybe it's telling him too much because he's not writing things correctly, just like 'use strict' would. He complains that you need to remember the parenthesis for a function call, but short of Ruby, I can't think of any other "normal" language that doesn't. C/C++/C#, Java, Python... He complains that a whole bunch of things are considered false, but when using the === operator, they aren't. Always use <?php ?>, and your code will always work, everywhere. Just because people abuse include() doesn't make it a flaw of the language. Strawman ftw. Plugins written for one framework won't work in another. Gasp! News at 11...