Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP3] Help craft PHP description

Andrei Zmievski writes: > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Mark Maggelet wrote: > > what about mentioning Zend? Isn't this the main difference between 3 and 4? > > as far as I know the compiler, optimizer, and the cache thing are all things that > > are not available for perl asp or cf (I think there's a perl compiler actually). > > Well, those products aren't really out yet, are they? > > > It seems to me that there should be an emphasis on things that only php > > has going for it. Also the word 'free' should probably be in there too. > > Good point. > > -Andrei > > What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, > is not the writing, it's deciding what to write. > -- Neal Stephenson I know that one thing that many folks are interested in hearing about is PHP's Java connectivity. I'm pretty sure that throwing that in somewhere would catch a lot of eyes. And sad as it is, many people will be making their initial implementation decisions based on, shall we say, less than thorough research. :) Besides, it's really a useful thing. I'm not suggesting that we try to shoehorn every last feature into this one paragraph ('Has support for addition, subtraction...'), and I realize that this is ideally more of an informational than marketing excercise, but perhaps this one (and a couple others like it) deserve some mention, if it can be done without having the damn thing turn into a 12-page treatise on the wonders of PHP4. :) Just a thought, Torben -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Phone: 1.250.383.9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+