I still hold a grudge against them for disabling short tags by default. Who decided that "<?php echo $variable;?>" is better than "<?=$variable ?>". I think on

I still hold a grudge against them for disabling short tags by default. Who decided that "<?php echo $variable;?>" is better than "<?=$variable ?>". I think one of their main arguments was that it could conflict with XML / XHTML parsers, but the people who want to parse php files using XHTML parsers are probably in the minority.