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by ma2rten 4449 days ago
I know of a small company (won't publicly shame them) that to this day is actively developing a php 4 code base. The reason is that they use a couple of libraries which do not work in php 5 and don't have the time/manpower to port it.
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Do you know what libraries can't be ported without a lot of effort? I haven't heard that in a long time.
Automattic isn't a small company.
Automattic is running PHP 5.4 on their servers, I believe: https://github.com/Automattic/prefork
He was trying to take a cheap jab at wordpress