At 22:18 27/11/2005, Nicolas Bérard Nault wrote:
Goto exists in C. If you affirm that goto should not exist in PHP because it gives the opportunity to screw their code to programmers, are you also affirming that C programmers are smarter than PHP programmers ?
I wouldn't make any statement regarding the intelligence level of C and PHP developers, since there are plenty of idiots and smart people on both camps; It has everything to do with training and experience. And the training and experience levels of the average PHP developer is nowhere near that of the average C/C++ developer.
Sorry for repeating it for the 1001st time in the few years, but PHP did not get to where it is today because we added everything and the kitchen sink, that's Perl. I would *really* be great if people realized that PHP the way it is now is successful, but it's not inherent to the PHP project. Not every bunch of features we pack under the name "PHP" will retain this level of success.
We *can* screw it if we go in the wrong direction, and adding redundant features which are useful in rare cases and much more likely to be abused than to be properly used is a good step in that direction. A lot of people are saying we already went too far with PHP 5, and that's arguable. It's clear, however, that adding more and more language features and making PHP more and more complex is not a good recipe.
Zeev
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