On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 15:22:01 UTC, Jack Stouffer
wrote:
2. Everything but the math library is extremely prone to change
within a couple of years and is therefore not really a good
candidate for standardization. There's a reason that there are
three different ways to connect to a MySQL database within the
PHP standard library: they tried to standardize something that
shouldn't really be standardized.
Almost every "standard" evolves (e.g. USB, 3GPP, etc) and are
subject to change in subsequent releases. Stopping the progress
is not a case in good standardization process.
As for PHP, it did most things wrong. What I mean is if one of
car manufactures makes bad cars shouldn't we use all of them.
Piotrek
