Re: cvs: php4 / acinclude.m4 /ext/standard config.m4 reg.c

> The point is it _can_ be used wrong. Sure it can, so we document that fact. > Are you seriously saying that someone would use PHP > on such embedded systems? Wouldn't it be better to > use C anyway to get fast and small programs? Well, PHP, with a bit of tweaking, is far smaller than any other dynamic scripting environment you can use for such small embedded web server platforms. And yes, I am seriously saying that PHP is used on such systems. > btw. What are the goals of PHP? To be the tool for everything? > To be number 1 _web_ scripting language? Yup, *web*. And web servers come in all shapes and sizes. Small NAS boxes that come with an administrative *web* interface, routers and gateways that come with a *web* interface, perhaps your next digital camera will be web managed. The trend to remove the tweakability of PHP by removing things such as --without-pcre and --with-regex=system makes it less and less likely that PHP will be chosen as the web tool for such devices. -Rasmus