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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:50:11 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP5 rocks!
From: jason@ionzoft.com (Jason Garber)
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To add..

The 18 of us here at IonZoft wish to thank all members of the PHP team and 
everyone who has helped make it happen.  We have built a fast growing 
company totally focused on solutions based on PHP, and are very excited 
about the release of PHP5.

Thanks!

Jason Garber


At 6/7/2004 09:51 PM -0400, Hans Lellelid wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>I just had to take a moment to let you all know just how cool this PHP5 
>thing is.  I know that I've been kinda vocal (and perhaps out of place) in 
>the past about some of the behavior of OO stuff like interfaces, and sure 
>disappointed when __toString() became less magical, etc.  Those are all 
>really minor things in the face of just how frickin' cool it is to build 
>applications with PHP5.
>
> From my perspective the greatest addition is Exceptions, followed very 
> closely by the new object model, interfaces, etc.  The use of libxml2 has 
> made many new things possible -- and has made use of XSLT a much less 
> painful ordeal.
>
>The only problem with PHP5 is just how painful it has made it to use 
>PHP4.  Anyway, just wanted to take a moment to say great work and thanks 
>for making what I do for a living fun! :)
>
>Cheers,
>Hans
>
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