[$] PHP and P++

PHP is the Fortran of the world-wide web: it demonstrated the power of codeembedded in web pages, but has since been superseded in many developers'minds by more contemporary technologies. Even so, as with Fortran, thereis far more PHP code out there than one might think, and PHP is stillchosen for new projects. There is a certain amount of tension in the PHPdevelopment community between the need to maintain compatibility for largeamounts of ancient code and the need to evolve the language to keep itrelevant for current developers. That tension has now come into the openwith a proposal to split PHP into two languages.