Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:71527 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 61047 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2014 20:27:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jan 2014 20:27:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=vchkpw@developersdesk.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=vchkpw@developersdesk.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain developersdesk.com designates 204.228.229.4 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: vchkpw@developersdesk.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 204.228.229.4 lessa.developersdesk.com Received: from [204.228.229.4] ([204.228.229.4:48174] helo=mail.developersdesk.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 15/D7-21270-ACCC2E25 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:27:55 -0500 Received: (qmail 2500 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jan 2014 20:27:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (vchkpw@developersdesk.com@71.220.158.75) by 0 with ESMTPA; 24 Jan 2014 20:27:49 -0000 Message-ID: <52E2CCBF.7030005@developersdesk.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 13:27:43 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <52E29253.2000801@lsces.co.uk> <52E2924B.6080002@ajf.me> <52E299D4.6040102@garfieldtech.com> <52E2C98C.6010005@lerdorf.com> In-Reply-To: <52E2C98C.6010005@lerdorf.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Ruminations on PHP 5++ From: vchkpw@developersdesk.com (Rick Widmer) On 1/24/2014 1:14 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > PHP is and should remain: > > 1) a pragmatic web-focused language > 2) a loosely typed language > 3) a language which caters to the skill-levels and platforms of a wide > range of users Please don't forget 4) a template system for generating dynamic web pages. and alternate syntax : ... ENDx are very important to me! Rick