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PHP 4 is Dead–Long Live PHP 5

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Sean Michael Kerner
Feb 1, 2008

“PHP 4, deployed on tens of millions of servers globally, is
among the most successful languages of all time. But its run is
coming to an end.

“Active development for the scripting language has been
discontinued and security updates will conclude in August. And for
some developers, PHP 4 will be history before Valentine’s Day.

“On February 5, a group of influential Open Source projects will
collectively stop all new development on their respectively
platforms using PHP 4…”

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