This isn't radical. PHP apologism is incredibly widespread. And it almost always takes the same poor form you chose here, of pretending everyone is just confl

This isn't radical. PHP apologism is incredibly widespread. And it almost always takes the same poor form you chose here, of pretending everyone is just conflating preference with quality. No, supporting octal constants only by accident, and doing so incorrectly because it was an accident is not a valid design decision and simply a difference of opinion. Plenty of other languages have been used as much or more than PHP, without the same level of criticism. Consider the very real possibility that some of that criticism is valid and try reading it instead of dismissing it.