Usually that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attritude is just the thing to make a technology less and less useful and eventually it'll be antiquated. Eseentially, it is already is. Don't get me wrong, just because it's out of date doesn't mean it still isn't useful. I just think that even in an opensource community, there would be leaders and people looking towards the future.
As for your comments on .NET and Java extensions, if i wanted to use those technologies, I would use them for everything. If someone is using .net, they are probably taking advantage of all the other cool features that it provides. Like I said, I think its time PHP started moving forward and developed a new vision for itself and the community. Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Winstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: The PHP Platform > 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 > > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
