Re: Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading?

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > Rene Veerman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: >>> >>> Rene Veerman wrote: >>> >>>> again: >>>> a) you're determining the contents of my toolset, without it affecting >>>> you at all. the way you want it php will degrade into a toy language. >>> >>> Rene, it seems to me that you and I are advocating two opposite >>> positions on the topic of threading in PHP, so aren't we both trying to >>> determine the contents of each others toolset? >>> >> >> Per: that's EXACTLY the point. >> You are determining it for me, i'm not for you. >> Simply because you dont have to use the language features you atm >> think you don't need in php. > > Actually, no. You are determine aspects of the toolset as it stands. To add > threading is not a benign additon because we can choose to use it or not. If > added it would affect the future irrevocably since undoubtedly we would need > to maintain someone's code that contains threads because they didn't > understand the shared nothing nature of PHP. yes you may encounter bad code. it happens now too. but most realtime programmers know not to use threads unless necessary.