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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bringing Peace to the Galaxy
From: Danack@basereality.com (Dan Ackroyd)

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 21:17, Zeev Suraski <zeev@php.net> wrote:
>
> My goal is to have two sister languages, with both PHP and P++
> being equal among equals

PHP internals is already lacking programming resources to do
everything we want to be doing.

Maintaining two versions at once would be more work, so this idea is
not feasible without a dramatic increase in the number of people
working on PHP core.

> I think that we should do our very best to get this
> "P++" right the first time,

That's a fundamentally bad approach to designing a system. If an
approach is worth doing, it's worth doing even if it's done poorly.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Systems-Bible-Beginners-Guide-Large/dp/0961825170

cheers
Dan
Ack