PHP's vision (was: libxml bundling)

At 07:12 PM 6/1/2002, Björn Schotte wrote:

* Sebastian Bergmann wrote: I don't want to see changes (like those you mention later in your posting) in PHP to attract new users, but more to bind people that already use PHP, but are about to "outgrow" it. If you (and others) want PHP to stay at the "BASIC for the Web" level forever - fine, but spell it out clearly. Otherwise people who are waiting for PHP to evolve beyond that will become more and more frustrated. +1. The ease of PHP - one of its biggest advantages is also one of its biggest disadvantages. IMHO.

Do you mind elaborating on that?? I think we should hash out this issue as soon as possible, because if people have a vision of turning PHP into a language which is hostile towards newbies, then there's a serious lack of consensus in our team. Furthermore, if you think that we should not strive to make it even easier for people to get started, forever, then we have a strong disagreement as well. The PHP project does not exist to create the perfect incarnation of a computer language on the planet, for CS majors to drool over and utter 'Wow!' at. It exists as a quick, powerful platform for creating web sites, in use by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. For some, I believe, somewhere along the lines this was forgotten.. Zeev