On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Zend is only one of many >> contributors. Yes, the engine is still named Zend Engine but the >> language has been improved by many php.net contributors. >> > The idea was that "ZPHP" is PHP running on top of the Zend Engine, in the > same way that "JRuby" is Ruby running on top of the JVM, and "CPython" is > Python implemented in C. In my mind, it doesn't imply any connection to the > company of the same name - especially if we're only borrowing its first > letter - but perhaps others would see that differently. > We (HHVM) ran into this issue as well. We'd talk about the way PHP (the reference implementation) does something and needed to disambiguate it from PHP (the language syntax). Prior to my joining the project "Zend" was the go-to moniker for this. Since I've seen that go down very poorly many times in the past (who here remembers the ZendCon where they included "Zend === PHP" on their marketing materials?) I pushed the team towards saying "PHP5" when referring to the implementation, and "PHP" when referring to the language syntax.
That's not really a solution for us (PHP), but I do think the issue of separating the language from the implementation is useful, even if our (PHP) implementation of PHP (syntax) is and will always be the de-facto reference implementation. -Sara P.S. - Pronouns are getting hard, yo. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
