I do not look forward to hunting down and fixing another round of defects in all of our deployed PHP code because they have changed the language for ideological

I do not look forward to hunting down and fixing another round of defects in all of our deployed PHP code because they have changed the language for ideological purity. Code lives longer then their transition periods. But, thank you for "no magic quotes". I can confidently say that they have only caused me bugs. When our testers try apostrophes in web page input they aren't looking for broken SQL, they are looking for spurious backslashes.