Re: Changing fundamental language behaviors

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:58 PM Peter Bowyer <phpmailinglists@gmail.com> wrote: > > One can argue that WordPress, with it powering 34% of the web (source: > wordpress.org) represents more than 50% of PHP users, and therefore > aligning the language to how they use it would be sensible, as they are the > majority of users. PHP and WordPress have had a symbiotic relationship, the > success of one increasing the success of the other. > How many of those are actually developers? Because the way I understand this numbers, "powering the web", that doesn't mean 34% are also developers. It wouldn't surprise me if a big portion of these applications could've also be a system written in another language, deployed, plugins installed, added some themes and done, no PHP knowledge required. Regards, Lynn van der Berg