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by jessedhillon 5507 days ago
Sorry, I have to disagree with you.

A language whose maintainers decided that, in the fifth major release, `goto` needed to be added is not getting better. Nor is one whose maintainers rationalize the choice of backslash as a third, distinct scope resolution operator -- instance-attribute, class-attribute, and now namespace-member.

The sheer number of fails with PHP warrants the 'good language' treatment. The fact that,

  08 === 0
alone is enough to make it deserving of this treatment.