.. On Jan 23, 2008 11:14 AM, Chris Stockton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I partially agree, I have been watching this discussion and it's funny > how we have such a class of high end developers saying to break old > PHP code. But, the majority of the success of PHP is not due to this > small class of high end developers, it's due to it's availability in a > shared hosting environment, and the ease of use for beginners, and the > oodles of fairly poor quality code that is easy to copy and paste onto > peoples websites. > > Look at the adoption of php4, many webhosts haven't even updated to > PHP5 completely due to things like register_globals and small > backwards compatibility breakage. The list of problems is small and > correctable, if you give system engineers at all of these hosting > companies the choice of A. Upgrade to php6 and drive support calls > through the roof, or B. Stay at PHP4/5 for eternity until a more > (insert your complaints / rants here) language comes along to dethrone > PHP. > > Problem is, PHP has been built to great success based on it's early > foundation, but now a group of high class developers want it to be > more then PHP was built onto. You will sacrifice it's success if > backwards compatibility is not just, broke, but obliterated. Why > change PHP's philosophy? Keep it easy for the new user, keep it > successful, and make me work a little more when I want to implement my > "high class" development methodologies. I don't mind, I do it already. > > I write this as a "high class" developer. > > -1 > > -Chris > > On Jan 22, 2008 7:32 PM, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, January 21, 2008 8:38 am, Antony Dovgal wrote: > > > > > > 6 reasons why we must to get rid of The Switch ASAP > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > I was +1... > > > > Until folks started posting that old PHP scripts won't run as-is in > > PHP 6?... > > > > That's just daft... > > > > When my webhost upgrades to PHP 6, I need all my old scripts to just > > keep on chugging away, as much as possible... > > > > I really think we're stuck with the default "string" being an > > old-school binary string, unless you want to lose a LOT of users in a > > hurry, or have PHP 5 stick around forever and ever. > > > > -- > > Some people have a "gift" link here. > > Know what I want? > > I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. > > http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch > > Yeah, I get a buck. So? > > > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
