Re: [PHP4BETA] Help craft PHP description

On Sat, 13 May 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Sat, 13 May 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > I also don't like the part about borrowing syntax from C/Perl/Java. Having > > a line such as "very easy to learn both for beginners and experienced > > programmers" would probable be more attractive. > > Sounds good. I never liked that line myself. I can understand the reasoning for avoiding the 'borrowing syntax' line in an official description of this nature. However, when I'm explaining PHP to somebody, I describe the syntax as being along the same vein as Java, C, and Perl. Saying it's very easy to learn is fine, but one could argue ColdFusion is easy to learn too. I consider the similarity in style and syntax between PHP and other languages to be a strong point of PHP, because anyone with even modest background in Perl or a C-style language can literally pick up PHP in a matter of days. Matt