On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 18:38, tedd wrote: > At 3:14 PM -0400 4/8/06, Robert Cummings wrote: > >On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:00, Paul Goepfert wrote: > >> I'm not looking for someome to do it for me. I would like to learn > >> how to do this my self. I have written code in Java and C/C++ before. > >> From the function list in the PHP manual some of the functions look > >> like the C/C++ functions. > > > >That's a good observation. PHP drew a lot of it's initial design > >directly from C. > > > >Cheers, > >Rob. > > Rob: > > Isn't php written in C?
It is, but so are many other languages that don't keep much of the C philosophy :) Part of the philosophy behind PHP was to make it easy for developers writing traditional CGI (the hard way in C) to make the switch to PHP. The other part of the philosophy was to make it simple enough for the average programmer to also use. Somewhere along the line I think they came across a good mesh... although some critics would say that those elements are a bad thing. Personally I love the closeness to C. I've had routines in C that I've cut and pasted into PHP, prefixed the vars with a $, removed var declarations, tweaked a few other things here and there (pointers *hah*) and voila, it runs *drool*. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
