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Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 23:16:07 +0200
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To: Brian Moon <brian@moonspot.net>
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	Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Porting PECL to userspace
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

2011/5/20 Brian Moon <brian@moonspot.net>:
>> I think it's the exact opposite - the less C code we need the better.
>> Developing C code is more work. Maintaining C code is more work.
>> Distributing C code is more complicated. The less this is needed, the
>> faster PHP is, the better for everybody (except C programmers ;-) )
>
> I was with you until "The less this is needed, the faster PHP is, the better
> for everybody". PHP is just a glue language on top of an awesome library of
> C. If more people would embrace that and quit including 1000 classes to show
> a simple web page then it would be better for everybody.
>

Indeed. But how awesome would it be if you could talk to a c library
using userspace PHP?
We do have a large community that thinks c is scary and don't dare to
checkout the source to even fix a typo - but if they could write an
extension in PHP... :)

-Hannes