RE: [PHP4BETA] What is ext/lcg/lcg.c?
| From: | Samuel Liddicott | Date: | Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:46:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP4BETA] What is ext/lcg/lcg.c? | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Musone [mailto:musone@edgeglobal.com]
> Sent: 30 August 1999 07:05 AM
> To: zeev@zend.com
> Cc: rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com; php4beta@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] What is ext/lcg/lcg.c?
>
>
> what's the problem with having both sets of code??
>
> if the platform supports method X with improved performance/whatever,
> use it...if all else fails, use the good old standard portable code.
>
> best of both worlds..
Exactly. And if a programming methodology is good it will become
implemented and thus portable. But only if it is implemented because it is
good. And the entry to the catch 22 is where the implemenation gives good
features but general use does not require them - as in this case.
Sam