Re: The future of PHP

Manuel, Rather than whining about the future of PHP, why don't you be proactive and take on the goal of raising the $100,000 for the project? Fred Steinkopf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> To: "Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >