Re: Php5 merging with Java???

Hello, On 09/01/2004 02:06 PM, Jim Macdiarmid wrote:

I've been reading the latest articles about the future of PHP and based on the way I am understanding it, I'm getting the impression that PHP will not be free or open source. I'm interested in getting other PHP developer options and/or clarification of this direction. What is this going to do to the PHP community? Will most PHP developers stick with it or take up some other language such as C# for example? I am a relatively new PHP developer and I really like it's ease of use and all the functionality the current 4.x.x version has, so I find the news of it's current path rather depressing.

I have no idea from where do you take these conclusions. Some people have interest that PHP engine be based on Parrot instead of Zend. That is the dynamic typed languages engine of Perl 6 . http://www.edwardbear.org/pap.pdf Even if that is feasible I am not sure if Zend people would not let it see the light of day for PHP as it means that everybody could use Parrot optimizers, caches and compilers instead of buying their equivalent commercial Zend engine based extension products. The same goes for Java based PHP or whatever you are claiming. As for moving from PHP to Java or whatever, many PHP developers have already done that. Many will not do it ever because Java is much harder and complicated despite it provides a cleaner and powerful platform. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html