Re: looking for volunteers phpDocumentor, new converter reST

On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 11:39 AM, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

# paj@pearfr.org / 2003-06-13 17:32:00 +0200:

On 13 Jun 2003 11:21:42 -0400 Sterling Hughes <sterling@bumblebury.com> wrote:

# apt-get install python I don't think its unreasonable to require Perl, Python or PHP, as they are pretty major UNIX scripting languages.

UNIX users does not have any problem to get the required tools to work with docbook or convert to docbook. We are talking about crossplatform tools. There is only one sure thing, the users got php installed.

    installing python on windows is a snap.

    sorry guys, but this makes me feel like the next great thing will
    be rewrite of gcc in PHP so that people compiling PHP don't depend
    on a program written any other language. I'm sure you would figure
    out how to bootstrap that. :)

The point you are missing is that C and gcc are not 'competing' products to PHP. Here I mean competitive in the sense that they provide a similar functionality, similar featureset, and fill a similar place in the field of programming languages. <unqualified_rant> On principal, PEAR and the PHP Group should work towards advocating PHP adoption where PHP is an appropriate tool. Certainly text parsing and formating are an appropriate place for PHP, and there is a strong argument that, by virtue of them being rather similar languages, 'anything that Python can do, PHP can do just as well'. Sometimes a need will force you to use a tool from another language, but it seems contrary to this idea of advocacy to choose a format that forces such a choice. </unqualified_rant> George

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