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grncdr on Dec 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook releases HHVM, 60 percent faster than its...

> But guess what? Code that was written in PHP3 over 10 years ago works just as well today under PHP5.

Sorry, but having felt the pain of keeping legacy installs of old PHP versions around to run business-critical processes, I have to call bullshit on that one.

maratd on Dec 14, 2011 [–]

> legacy installs of old PHP versions around to run business-critical processes

Why? Your code should work in the latest version. Can you give an example?

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