> And you have not proven in any way that "all the alternatives" you mentioned above are better than php, either - esp. Perl...
Perl has had *everything* for years that is "new" in PHP 5.4. Same thing with the 5.3 release. Plus it has proper Unicode support which PHP lacks to this day.
Also, I am not the one who started this discussion by asserting random stuff like PHP being irreplaceable, Kit is the one who should explain why he things this is so.