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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][DISCUSSION] Multilingual PHP
From: tendoaki@gmail.com (Michael Morris)

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The replies so far have been excellent and I do appreciate the time given
to write them. Being a lazy one-language American (I tried to learn Spanish
but I've forgotten most of what I learned out of lack of use) I'm not
familiar with the obstacles to learning English beyond "gittin rid my
accint" when I was real little.

Several of you brought up a counterpoint Wired hadn't considered - that
having a common language facilitates cooperation around the globe. Some
large projects like Drupal, WordPress, and PHP itself couldn't be
undertaken without a common tongue.

A colleague of mine at word pointed out that there are preprocessors out
there such as antlr that can translate the language of a file into the
tokens the compiler will recognize. It seems an adequate solution, but I
don't know for sure.

Still, an interesting discussion overall. Thanks.

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