Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76013 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13748 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2014 14:28:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jul 2014 14:28:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:54168] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 5C/1A-58899-C1811D35 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:28:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5C7B00085; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:28:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 5Tap3fBDy9sO; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:28:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AB6BDB0007B; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:28:43 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <53D10CE8.8090500@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:28:40 +0100 Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <4212D04D-0241-4887-A9DF-180958A31926@ajf.me> References: <53CFB2CD.5050703@hoa-project.net> <53D0062A.20905@gmail.com> <3D49DA70-E726-439B-94E7-F8888358C04D@benramsey.com> <53D0FC76.3080604@hoa-project.net> <53D10CE8.8090500@gmail.com> To: Rowan Collins X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Language Specification From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 24 Jul 2014, at 14:40, Rowan Collins wrote: > Incidentally, that's another question: some people like to make clear = that the Zend Engine isn't actually the language implementation, it just = *powers* the implementation. In which case, what *should* the = implementation be called? That=92s actually an important question. I always tend to say =93Zend = PHP=94 here, but I=92m a little bit uneasy about having Zend in the = name. Perhaps =93the PHP.net implementation=94? =93PHP Group = implementation=94? =93PHP reference implementation=94? We could take a leaf from Python=92s book and call it CPHP :) -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/