Re: PHP Language Specification
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:19:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Language Specification | ||
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On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:12, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
> Other opensource languages that have multiple implementations, still have
> the 'official' release with the original name, while other implementations
> have separate, different names that implement 'the XYZ language' or 'the
> ABC spec'.
>
> E.g., there's Jython, Cython, PyPy - but the original Python is still
> Python.
Python might be a poor example. The “original Python” is called CPython.
In technical discussions it would be very useful to have a proper name for the vanilla
implementation, even though most people are going to call it PHP anyway.
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Andrea Faulds
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