Maybe, but the standard library always makes my heart beat faster. We're talking about the language where you have pearls like strcspn, strtr, strstr, strpbrk a

Maybe, but the standard library always makes my heart beat faster. We're talking about the language where you have pearls like strcspn, strtr, strstr, strpbrk and at least three different naming styles for the same group of functions (e.g. for strings strtr, str_replace, trim). And good luck with handling non ascii data with the standard library. PHP would need a highly deprecating major version to clean all the rubbish, but it will never happen (see the history of PHP 6.0) disclaimer: I'm a PHP developer (during the day, but at night...)