[PHP-DEV] Yet Another Stupid Question: Why Bother with Compatibility?

[GamblerZG]

Maintaining compatibility between different major versions of PHP must 
be extremely hard. Maybe that is obvious, but I do not quite understand 
why developers do it. Why PHP 5 has to understand deprecated syntax of 
PHP 4? I mean, if someone needs to execute old scripts, they can always 
use old engine.

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