Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] PHP in the future

IMO, one of the big reasons for having a powerful OO mode, and continually evolving php to have a bigger target than just "a web programming language", is code re-usability. You can design a nice consistent Framework, and easily rollout web, gui, and back end applications all using the same framework. -Jason On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 07:04, Kristian Koehntopp wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 6. Juni 2002 19:59 schrieb Dan Hardiker: > > I sit in many PHP channels (IRC), and observe many class-based > > PHP networks (php-classes.org is one I monitor closely) and > > can say definatly that the majority of PHP users want *more* > > OO capabilities in PHP. > > From a marketing POV, what most people want is NOT more OOP in > PHP, but actually a hostable Java. > > PHP is everywhere and pretty much free, when it comes to webspace > hosting. Java usually isn't, because it has certain requirements > for its execution environment that cannot be met in cheap > hosting environments. > > So when users ask for "more OO" in PHP, they usually want Java > and Java capabilities for the price of their current PHP site, > and a migration path towards this. Since there is no such thing, > they end up trying to turn PHP into Java. > > Kristian >