You can perfectly well add stuff to a language without changing it into a new one, it happened to PHP many times, from 4 to 5, from 5 to 5.3 - OO, closures, namespaces, and stuff beyond that in trunk - it is definitely possible. I just wanted to keep it practical - no use to discuss things that can never happen (unless somebody forks the language completely - which would be pointless since they could as well use one of the many other ones).

So the problem was my grammar is bad? I admit, English is not my native language, so I tend to skip an article here and there. Maybe on English.SE that would be a valid reason to close the question, but in Programmers?

It so happens I am one of the core PHP developers. From my nickname it's quite easy to guess which one :)