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RE: Re[4]: PHP compiler

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Jeremy S. Johnstone

23 years ago
I apologize if I sounded rude at all, it's just that I am sick of people telling me "php isn't intended for that", when I come up with new ideas. I ask those same people what they think PHP is for, and inevitably I get some variation on LAMP. If PHP is only intended to ever be a "web programming language" and has no plans of branching out in the future, I think PHP is grossly limiting itself. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy S. Johnstone [mailto:jsjohnst@altdns.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:42 AM To: 'Wez Furlong' Subject: RE: Re[4]: [PHP-DEV] PHP compiler Okay, so you want to arbitrarily limit PHP's use to simple web applications? With attitudes like this, maybe I should just cancel my CVS account at php.net and go join a Microsoft ASP team somewhere. If myself and other person who started the "Java-alike thread" want to discuss PHP having internal support for features such as this, I think we are well entitled to. Of course that doesn't mean the core programmers have to head our desires and actually allow it to be included, but it doesn't stop us from discussing the merits of such a solution. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Wez Furlong [mailto:wez@thebrainroom.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:30 AM To: Simeon Koptelov; internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: Re[4]: [PHP-DEV] PHP compiler This isn't really an internals matter, and isn't going to happen in the core (for various reasons). It is something you can implement yourself using your own extension and the streams API. Can we please drop this thread (and related Java-alike threads) now and replace them with more technical issues actually related to the internals of PHP ? :-) --Wez.
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George Schlossnagle

23 years ago
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Jeremy S. Johnstone wrote:
> I apologize if I sounded rude at all, it's just that I am sick of > people > telling me "php isn't intended for that", when I come up with new > ideas. > I ask those same people what they think PHP is for, and inevitably I > get > some variation on LAMP. If PHP is only intended to ever be a "web > programming language" and has no plans of branching out in the future, > I > think PHP is grossly limiting itself.
What Wez was saying is that this is not an appropriate place for this discussion. Take it over to pear-dev. And as another poster has already mentioned - theres already a project that accomplishes most everything you want. bcompiler - in PEARs PECL repository. George

Wez Furlong

23 years ago
Damn, and I was just about to respond suggesting that you cancel your cvs account too ;-) It's easy to think that PHP can and should be applied to everything that you might want to do, ranging from your web pages to managing the power on your ACPI laptop and so on, but you do need to keep sight of the fact that PHP was designed for "The Web Problem", and that "The Web Problem" will always be the primary focus of PHP. Anything that *really* doesn't fit with that just isn't going to get into the core. However, quite often, you can extend or otherwise modify PHP to suit your own needs - it is OpenSource after all. --Wez. PS: I am one of the last people you should be complaining at about "php isn't intended for that"; perhaps you should study your PHP history before you make your next post. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy S. Johnstone" <jsjohnst@altdns.net> To: "'Wez Furlong'" <wez@thebrainroom.com> Cc: <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:54 PM Subject: RE: Re[4]: [PHP-DEV] PHP compiler

Jeremy S. Johnstone

23 years ago
>PS: I am one of the last people you should be complaining at about "php
isn't intended for that"; perhaps you should study your PHP >history before you make your next post. That is why I apologized if I came off rude. I snapped back without realizing who had actually made the post I was responding to. Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Wez Furlong [mailto:wez@thebrainroom.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:11 AM To: Jeremy S. Johnstone Cc: internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: Re[4]: [PHP-DEV] PHP compiler Damn, and I was just about to respond suggesting that you cancel your cvs account too ;-) It's easy to think that PHP can and should be applied to everything that you might want to do, ranging from your web pages to managing the power on your ACPI laptop and so on, but you do need to keep sight of the fact that PHP was designed for "The Web Problem", and that "The Web Problem" will always be the primary focus of PHP. Anything that *really* doesn't fit with that just isn't going to get into the core. However, quite often, you can extend or otherwise modify PHP to suit your own needs - it is OpenSource after all. --Wez. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy S. Johnstone" <jsjohnst@altdns.net> To: "'Wez Furlong'" <wez@thebrainroom.com> Cc: <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:54 PM Subject: RE: Re[4]: [PHP-DEV] PHP compiler