On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, boots wrote:
>... %> or some such thing. Basically, even the new users I talked to
>felt that they could manage the change, they were however a little bit
>turned off about the idea of being forced to update their scripts.
Nobody _forces_ them to update to PHP 5 either.
I won't update to it immediately. I actually got bitten by
some BC issues a while ago. It's not that important always
to be on the 'bleeding-edge'.
"If it ain't broken, don't fix it." (I'm trying to learn this :)
Still, it would be really nice to once and for all get rid of these
kind of annoyances (not only CS) and make PHP more appealing
to everyone, NOT _only_ the beginners. As I think it would give
more than that warm fuzzy feeling. Clean, bug free (a dream :),
consistent and free from history's burdens.
It might make less experienced coders turn away from PHP...but
after all, is that _really_ a bad thing? Or is PHP supposed to
be a language for beginners to start with and then move on to
more advanced ones? I don't think that underestimating the users
is really the way to stop us from improving the language.
I myself would feel really insulted about this kind of statements.
IMHO, PHP has become this succesful because it has been improved
and extended rapidly. Stopping the evolution might only lead
into extinction.
--Jani
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