Re: The future of PHP

> These guys resort to these marketing tricks to promote Python as hell, > and the PHP people just sits and waits doing almost nothing in > comparision to promote PHP as hard as they can even when they lives > depend on the acceptance of PHP as a wide spread language! Manuel, please, give this tirade a rest. Nobody associated with Python development was involved in this "amazing" marketing trick you are referring to. Somebody just decided to do this on their own. And now you are criticizing the PHP developers for not having the same foresight as the Python developers? It says so right in their FAQ (http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/faq.html) "And in answer to some of the more virulent postings on Usenet and in other venues, neither Guido van Rossum nor anyone else associated with Python development was involved in setting up this project, choosing the language, or defining the terms of the competition. Guido was only asked to be a judge after the decision to use Python had been made. If we had decided to use Perl or Tcl, we would obviously have invited Larry Wall or John Ousterhout to join the panel." If somebody wants to put up $100,000 for a PHP software contest, perfect, great, we will be every bit as cooperative as the Python developers. -Rasmus