> You can also see text in our bug database from a prominent PHP developer > saying that the filter API needs to be redone from scratch (my > paraphrase). For the enthusiastic PHP users, such comments carry a lot > of weight and imply that PHP isn't production ready with 2.0 not because > nobody has made it a high priority to make PHP production ready but > instead because there is something flawed about Apache 2.0.
Well, I stand by that. The filter API is a bloody mess. Something which should be simple and elegant has turned into this amazingly complex tangle of code that is nearly impossible to figure out. -Rasmus