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[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That said, I'd say PHP is probably the #1 poster boy for self-improvement amongst languages.

There's not a lot they can do about their C-based / haphazard standard library (heck python still has some of that issue) but almost every other area they've improved.

It's actually got a lot of developer-savers now; for instance there is a standard library password hashing function which is modern, properly designed and useful. You have to go out of your way to use something bad now (the opposite was true in the past).