On 18 Jul 2007, at 09:14, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
*shrugs* Most of what I code nowadays is PHP5, but I don't see how
it matters one way or the other. Am I missing something? Does it
hurt the community to have my code running a generation behind?
I think it does, yes. If no one is updating their code and
progressing forward then the hosts don't update the versions they
install on their servers… and if the servers don't have the new
version then people are not motivated to write using the new
features… and the cycle hinders progress.
At my hosting company all my new servers run PHP5 and I suggest
moving that way to all my customers.
I think that if we take a hint from Apple and make our new
applications fully PHP 5 compatible and forget about PHP 4 then
people who use those applications will in turn push the hosting
companies to get PHP 5 on the servers. That is, of course, a
simplistic way of looking at it, but at the same time, the laws of
supply and demand work here. Make good and attractive applications
using cutting edge technology and consumers will push the service
industry into supporting their demands.
Jonathan
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