On Sep 18, 2015 9:04 PM, "Thomas Hruska" <thru...@cubiclesoft.com> wrote:
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> On 9/18/2015 8:37 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>>
>> Do you have a suggestion on rephrasing?
>>
>> -Hannes
>
>
> A couple of ideas:
>
> "Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to
the most popular websites in the world to powerful command-line utilities."
>
> The sentence gets a bit wordy and spans multiple lines even at the widest
layout.
>
>
> "PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language for building robust
web applications and command-line utilities."
>
> It's a bit longer than the original sentence but doesn't span multiple
lines at the widest layout.
>
>
> Only one sentence should mention the command-line.  And the above are
just a couple of ideas.  If you don't like either one, I can try coming up
with something else.  By the way, even if you don't like the second idea,
just excluding " and command-line utilities" results in a sentence with
more "punch" than the original:
>
> "PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language for building robust
web applications."
>
> And it's shorter than the original too.

I like this. What do you think, Hannes?

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