> but upstream's unwillingness to simply change the language for better. Wow that could not be more wrong. PHP definitely changes things to make the language

> but upstream's unwillingness to simply change the language for better. Wow that could not be more wrong. PHP definitely changes things to make the language better, especially breaking changes. PHP5 changed objects from value types to reference types -- you don't get a bigger change than that. But they don't just change things willy-nilly -- they do try to maintain backwards compatibility as much as is reasonable otherwise it wouldn't still be PHP.