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PHP Hacking aka trying to push PHP internals forwards

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Re: PHP Hacking aka trying to push PHP internals forwards

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Post by z92 »

VMG wrote: post #19
adaml_623 wrote: post #2

Good to see. It's about time PHP got forked even if experimentally. It seems to me that you could fix a lot of the problems with PHP by breaking backwards compatibility.

What would a sane version of PHP look like? What are the good parts of PHP besides easy setup?

One good point in PHP is the hello world code is just "hello, world". Not print("hello, world") neither .

Simply type in hello world in a file, save it and run it as PHP script. It will print "hello world". And that was the start of the good things.

Re: PHP Hacking aka trying to push PHP internals forwards

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Post by philolson »

grumpycanuck wrote: post #4

I'm a long-time PHP user (since 1998) but I never really peered inside the discussions of the internals of PHP. Now that I'm more connected to others in the PHP world, what you see inside the mailing list for PHP internals is what I would label as obstructionism and an attitude that seems to imply that if you cannot code the requested changes yourself, don't even bother asking. Lead, follow, or get out of the way are…

It's not productive and everyone loses with that attitude, because "... don't even bother asking" essentially blames others for not implementing ideas stuck in your head.
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