Posted by Michael Fesser on 11/02/06 23:10

..oO(Chung Leong)

>How people perceive you, of course, has much to do with the image that
>you try to project. As it's election season here in the US [...]

Maybe they should use PHP on the election machines in Florida ...

>That's the problem with PHP. The developers don't seem to know what
>makes the language successful. Development is so focused on appeasing
>detractors that they're willing to sacrifice backward compatibility.

I partly agree, but there are some things that simply _must_ be changed,
regardless of backward compatibility. There were some real errors made
in the beginning of PHP (register_globals, just to name one). Fixing
them can't be done without breaking compatibility. But I consider that a
good thing. Properly written scripts still work, others need a rewrite.

Micha

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