Re: Re: Bringing Peace to the Galaxy

Sent from my tablet > On 9 Aug 2019, at 19:02, Mark Randall <markyr@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 09/08/2019 08:15, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> You seem to believe that C++ is inherently superior to C. And it's >> entirely within your right. >> However, there are projects - to this date - that prefer C to C++ for a >> variety of reasons. PHP is one of them, and others include the Linux >> kernel, redis, nginx, and actually - the vast majority of the fundamental >> pieces of OS infrastructure our planet runs on. This isn't just for >> historical reasons - it has to do with a variety of reasons, and the >> simplicity of C is one of them. > > I just wanted to amend a bit of present day context, as it happens, security management at > Microsoft is currently giving serious consideration to moving away from C / C++ and on to memory > safe languages because of the benefits they bring. Regardless of whether or not it’d happen - this has nothing to do with the point at hand. It’s not whether C and C++ are good or bad. It’s about the concept of introducing a sister language that provides new capabilities and certain different behaviors, rather than changing the original one. We’re not arguing whether PHP/P++ are good, we’re discussing whether it makes sense to introduce a sister language to PHP. Zeev