PHP4 End-of-Life Annoucement
July 14th, 2007 by Ernesto Gluecksmann 
PHP is one of the web’s most popular programming languages and it’s one I am most comfortable with in general. It was created at a time when the available conventional programming languages like C or Java were too powerful (low level) or too bulky and unwieldy. Somewhere in between the jack-of-all trades Perl and the so-simple-our-sales-guy can code it Cold Fusion, PHP was incarnated.
It was the first web developer programming language written by developers for developers and it continues to be a force of nature, even in the face hundreds of new languages that have since been created.
Well, PHP4 (version) has recently been officially declared dead, to focus energies on the vastly improved PHP5 and make room for the soon to arrive state-of-the-art PHP6. Thanks to killer innovations like WordPress (consequently, what we use for WCDC), PHP is here to stay and the latest innovations can only continue to solidify as the leading scripting language for the web.