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Subject: Re: Re[4]: [PHP-DEV] PHP compiler
From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle)
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On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 11:54  AM, Jeremy S. Johnstone wrote:

> I apologize if I sounded rude at all, it's just that I am sick of 
> people
> telling me "php isn't intended for that", when I come up with new 
> ideas.
> I ask those same people what they think PHP is for, and inevitably I 
> get
> some variation on LAMP. If PHP is only intended to ever be a "web
> programming language" and has no plans of branching out in the future, 
> I
> think PHP is grossly limiting itself.

What Wez was saying is that this is not an appropriate place for this 
discussion.  Take it over to pear-dev.  And as another poster has 
already mentioned - theres already a project that accomplishes most 
everything you want.  bcompiler  - in PEARs PECL repository.

George