At 07:12 PM 6/1/2002, Björn Schotte wrote: >* Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > I don't want to see changes (like those you mention later in your > > posting) in PHP to attract new users, but more to bind people that > > already use PHP, but are about to "outgrow" it. > > > > If you (and others) want PHP to stay at the "BASIC for the Web" level > > forever - fine, but spell it out clearly. Otherwise people who are > > waiting for PHP to evolve beyond that will become more and more > > frustrated. > >+1. > >The ease of PHP - one of its biggest advantages is also >one of its biggest disadvantages. IMHO.
Do you mind elaborating on that?? I think we should hash out this issue as soon as possible, because if people have a vision of turning PHP into a language which is hostile towards newbies, then there's a serious lack of consensus in our team. Furthermore, if you think that we should not strive to make it even easier for people to get started, forever, then we have a strong disagreement as well. The PHP project does not exist to create the perfect incarnation of a computer language on the planet, for CS majors to drool over and utter 'Wow!' at. It exists as a quick, powerful platform for creating web sites, in use by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. For some, I believe, somewhere along the lines this was forgotten.. Zeev -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
