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by philipp-de 4676 days ago
I agree about the need to really strip out the bad stuff, not just deprecating.

Wrt removal of language features: They seem to be in the process of cleaning up some there as well. For example in 5.4 they removed safe mode, register globals, magic quotes (and those were really awful). see: http://php.net/releases/5_4_0.php

I also agree that there is a lot of bad stuff still around.