saying that it won't benefit at all - perhaps Kristian would find it indispensable for PHPlib, but the vast majority of Web developers would not. And with all due respect to PHPlib, we won't change the PHP language theme and concept to be a better framework for PHPlib.
You´re to negative. I´m sure there are numerous advanced apps which could benefit from *some* improvements and I do respect Kristians involvement trying to influence PHPs development in a way PHP would profit of. (He noticed what would make sense and why).
I don't see how it makes big projects impossible. In fact, I know for
a fact it doesn't, because quite huge projects use PHP successfully,
and are completely maintainable (and maintained). As I see it, PHP
targets big projects, BUT only if it doesn't hurt its much much wider and common audience, of medium and small scale projects.
Hm, I´ve been to dramatic, sure. But it´s much easier to maintain (def maintain: bug fix, exetend, transform apps) OO code in my opition.
Offering some extended functionality witht PHP4 and saying that it´s a language which should in every part be easy to learn and the main target audience is the vast majority of unexperienced html constructors which should be enabled to add same dynamic functions will close the way to PHP5 or later versions I think.
PHP could become more feature rich, regarding functions and extensions, not more not less.
I understand Kristian, I´ve stumbled into some problems too, I could work around but at some points only the ugly way.
Andi´s latest post was a lot more positive.
regards
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