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kenneth on July 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP to deprecate MySQL extension

Being forever backward-compatible is a curse that prevents innovation and makes you end up with the mess of a language that PHP is.

pavel_lishin on July 15, 2011 [–]

I agree, but you don't have to be backward-compatible forever - you can deprecate features gracefully.

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