On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Chad Emrys <ad...@codeangel.org> wrote: > I just know the bigger culture of those who use PHP, and some of them are > quite annoyed by the dismissive nature of the maintainers who are quite at > odds to what the majority of the community want or needs.
As one of those people who "use PHP", after the first time googling it, I haven't needed it. It's one of those things about the language that's interesting. If you're going to complain about how someone has to learn something about another culture, why not take a step back and consider those throughout the world whose native language is something other than English have to try to translate what it does. Also, as one who also answers other's questions (although not IRC, because its my experience most people asking questions on there are dbags), I find that complaints regarding PHP's ambiguity in naming conventions and variable order (which is slowly being fixed, and is greatly appreciated) far, far outnumber the complaints regarding T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM. Actually, I never hear complaints about T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, just questions about what it is by people who'd rather be told than find out for themselves. And, when they find out, the answer is usually something like "Oh, neat." And, what sort of cooperation do you expect to get when your first line is "WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?". That's akin to finding multiple languages on your tax forms and exclaiming "WTF is this doing here!?" -- Jack Timmons @_Codeacula Trollfree: 8503290326 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
