Re: [PHP4BETA] Help craft PHP description

Andrei Zmievski writes: > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > > Wouldn't PHP, given its current design, be more like a wrapper > > (including extensions, function libraries, etc) around a scripting > > engine which implements a scripting language? ;) > > > > Hair, split.... > > I guess in my view, scripting language = scripting engine + function > libraries + additional functionality. > > -Andrei > > "The time from now until the completion > of the project tends to become constant." -- Douglas Hartree Yeah, where I put the word 'wrapper', I also wanted to say 'language'. It's actually a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing, I suppose: Zend implements the PHP language, but PHP is a scripting language comprising Zend and additional functions etc. So while I agree with you completely, I also agree with...er...me. I don't think it's something that we oughtta waste too much time worrying about. :) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Phone: 1.250.383.9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+