Re: [PHP3] Help craft PHP description

Mark Maggelet wrote: > > what about mentioning Zend? Isn't this the main difference between 3 and 4? Zend's great, but we have to keep in mind that it's one of the first of _many_ possible closed source plug-ins for PHP, no? Mentioning them by name might be a bit unfair to the other closed-source competition.... It'd be Rasmus' call, I guess. > 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). Perl compiles before running. PHP3 didn't, that's one of the reasons it was so slow. Zend pre-compiles, like Perl. Result caching, and code optimization, are pretty standard, so it won't _hurt_ to mention it as features. > 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. Well, "free" has a whole range of problems associated with it. Not all PHP work is free, and Zend certainly isn't fsf inspired... open source seems to be the de-facto "standard" for expressing the kind of licensing that most of PHP falls under, *but* then you'd need to add that certain portions are not open source....hm. -Bop -- Brought to you from boop!, the dual boot Linux/Win95 Compaq Presario 1625 laptop, currently running RedHat 6.1. Your bopping may vary.