Hello Antony, Saturday, October 6, 2007, 8:49:14 PM, you wrote:
> On 06.10.2007 22:38, Larry Garfield wrote: >> I have no love for Perl (and a rather strong dislike of it), but I have to >> agree with those who say that "looks like Perl" is a lame reason to reject >> something. PHP's object system looks an awful lot like Java, too. That >> doesn't make it bad. >> >> "Too unreadable", "not approachable enough", "too inflexible", etc. are >> perfectly valid reasons to reject a syntax. "Looks like <insert language >> here>" is not, I content, one of them. > I believe it should be pretty clear that "too perlish" means "too cryptic > and makes no sense because it duplicates already implemented functionality > (more than one way to do it, yeah)". > But "too perlish" is much shorter. Right, it is a term we somehow agreed on without ever saying so. Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
