Re: PHP Language Specification
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:26:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP Language Specification | ||
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On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:23, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
> CPython is the name of the implementation, but python.org offers you to
> download Python, not CPython. CPython is an internal name kind of like
> php-src (more or less). In fact, as an average end user, you'd not know
> about CPython at all.
Of course. So far as users care, CPython is Python. So far as users care, Zend
PHP/ZPHP/CPHP/php-src/vanilla PHP/whatever is PHP.
However, from an internals perspective, we need to be able to distinguish the two and this becomes
particularly important now due to HHVM and the specification.
So, we should decide on a name for the original PHP implementation.
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Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/