RE: PHP on .NET DLR

I believe they hired the Phalanger guys: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=Phalanger Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Schinkel [mailto:mikeschinkel@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:48 PM > To: 'K T Ligesh'; php-evangelism@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: PHP on .NET DLR > > K T: > > I ran a company for 12 years that sold components and tools > to Microsoft-centric software developers so I know a little > about how Microsoft's development division operates. I > highly doubt they will care about a petition. OTOH, if > someone implements PHP on the DLR and does a good job, they > will at least recognize the effort if not embrace it and most > likely offer to hire everyone on the core team that did the work. > > In summary: spare the petition, write code instead. > > JMTCW anyway. > > -- > -Mike Schinkel > http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ > http://www.welldesignedurls.org > http://atlanta-web.org - > http://t.oolicio.us > > P.S. Your comment "I don't think the beauty of the language > was the key, since MS is the purveyor of VB, one of the > ugliest languages around" falsely presumes several things: > 1.) that Microsoft has a single collective thought process > and 2.) that people's perspectives never evolve. BTW, as > languages go VB is far less ugly than PHP in my opinion, but > then I'm sure saying that on this list won't make me a lot of > friends. I am using PHP today because of its momentum and > marketshare (1: WordPress, Drupal, vBulletin, Mediawiki, et. > al. 2:Deployed on ALMOST EVERY webhost in the world today!) > not because of its language elegance. But hey, regarding > language elegance, I calls them like I sees them. :) >