> I dont mind heading/hosting of such a project. I have lots of ideas of how > to promote PHP, for example, why does nobody approach universities to push > them to include PHP in their courses? Java is learnt in university these > days, why not PHP??
Many universities do. Some of us have even given guest lectures during such classes. But personally I don't think PHP is a good teaching language. PHP is a real-world language whose sole purpose is to solve very real-world problems. So it is suited for classes that focus on problem solving and not for classes that try to teach someone solid programming principles. Java is a perfectly good teaching language. And no, I don't buy this marketing angle. PHP is and will be developed by volunteers who work on things that interest them. Whether "The Enterprise" decides to use PHP or not is entirely their problem. We cannot possibly compete with the marketing budgets and golf-course decision making of IBM, Sun and Microsoft. We can however compete technologically as long as we stay somewhat focused with our limited resources. Everyone is in such a rush to fix PHP and make it solve every problem out there. PHP is a component of an Enterprise solution, it is not *the* enterprise solution. We need to make sure PHP interoperates nicely with other parts, but building all the functionality directly into PHP violates the principles of UNIX of small targeted tools that are combined to solve the larger problem. I see PHP as such a small targeted tool that we constantly tweak to get it to interoperate with other tools designed to address different aspects of the overall problem. -Rasmus -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
