Re: pop3 functions

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:14:19 -0500 "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> wrote: > [snip] > > Those weird function names are taken straight from C. Blame the > > inventors of C. PHP is partly intended to be easy to learn for C > > programmers. > > I'm wondering how many php users are C programmers... > Can only blame the php inventors for using a bad model. > [/snip] > > Hey andu, since you say this what do you think would make a better > model? Or were you just being sarcastic? Hard to say since php is used all over the world but English would be fine with me. I'm very familiar with metatalk which is based on hypercard and the syntax and vocabulary are almost plain English with no performance penalties, that is, it's very fast. Take 'strstr()', could've easily been 'find_string()', 'strcmp()'-> binary_compare, and so on so that if one doesn't remember or doesn't know a function knows what to look for. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- Andu