Re: PHP Language Specification

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrea Faulds wrote (on 24/07/2014): > >> On 24 Jul 2014, at 14:40, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Incidentally, that's another question: some people like to make clear >>> that the Zend Engine isn't actually the language implementation, it just >>> *powers* the implementation. In which case, what *should* the implementation >>> be called? >> >> That’s actually an important question. I always tend to say “Zend PHP” >> here, but I’m a little bit uneasy about having Zend in the name. Perhaps >> “the PHP.net implementation”? “PHP Group implementation”? “PHP reference >> implementation”? >> >> We could take a leaf from Python’s book and call it CPHP :) > > > Or ZPHP? Implying the PHP implementation built on Zend, but not directly > using the Zend trademark? Call it php.net or something like that, Zend is only one of many contributors. Yes, the engine is still named Zend Engine but the language has been improved by many php.net contributors. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org