Ken Egervari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I actually find your post rather immature as well assuming that I just want > free custom tools. I think you need yourself need think to think about > software reuse and improving productivity. It's an important software issue > now as it was 20 years ago and I don't see PHP making any leaps towards > that. I'm merely stating that it should start to play catchup now, > especially with PHP 5 being in development.
i didn't assume you wanted free custom tools. i guess i overstated my point a bit. let me try to rephrase: why should we work on your grand vision for php's future, instead of the one that we are already collectively following? keep in mind that the following are tremendously lousy reasons: 1. sun and microsoft are doing it. 2. people who aren't already using php won't use php if we don't. 3. people already using php won't use php anymore if we don't. i think you need to learn more about how an open source community functions. how it sets priorities, how it communicates, and how it achieves progress. your "we"-must-do-this sort of diktat is a futile approach. as to my own feelings of the value of reuse and improving productivity, perhaps i see more value in reusing the components available in the java and .net platforms through technologies like soap, ext/java, and ext/dotnet, rather than cloning them in php. jim -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
