Re: Resurrecting the Function Renaming Thread

> Your point about most on the list being C coders is very valid and should be > taken into consideration, if we move PHP to be more like C then it will lose > out in the end - C just isn't a language lay-users find easy, I know I have > participated in classes that have tought C++ (Started with C first) and I > know that the vast majority of people found it very difficult to pick up. PHP has had a consistent 15% growth rate (++) for a long time, much higher than industry average. Making PHP more C-like is not one of the options on the table. Making PHP *less* C-like is the topic, really. Altering function names that experienced hackers in other languages already know may *reduce* adoption, not increase it. Many, many PHP adoptees cite their ability to *quickly* ramp-up because they don't have to search the whole manual to find out what PHP re-named strtok() as the reason they like it. They can just type the function name they are used to typing, and it works. Except for date(), which Rasmus has many, many times deeply regretted altering the argument order of. ++Source: Netcraft. -- Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm