Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:92540 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38411 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2016 13:23:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Apr 2016 13:23:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=fsb@thefsb.org; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=fsb@thefsb.org; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain thefsb.org designates 173.203.187.83 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: fsb@thefsb.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 173.203.187.83 smtp83.iad3a.emailsrvr.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [173.203.187.83] ([173.203.187.83:56666] helo=smtp83.iad3a.emailsrvr.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CC/A9-14036-FD287175 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:23:43 -0400 Received: from smtp3.relay.iad3a.emailsrvr.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3.relay.iad3a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 065A93002BB; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:23:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Auth-ID: fsb@thefsb.org Received: by smtp3.relay.iad3a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id DC4CB300218; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:23:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender-Id: fsb@thefsb.org Received: from yossy.local (c-66-30-62-12.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [66.30.62.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA) by 0.0.0.0:587 (trex/5.5.4); Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:23:41 -0400 To: Rick Widmer , internals@lists.php.net References: <5B147E88-CC0A-4CBC-A49D-C7FE3BF557C0@zend.com> <6F.C3.12455.94C5F075@pb1.pair.com> <20160414094440.GF19347@phcomp.co.uk> <570FD94F.90703@fleshgrinder.com> <570FE8A9.4020809@gmail.com> <20.53.29891.17401175@pb1.pair.com> <57110BCD.5030009@garfieldtech.com> <571124C2.9040606@gmx.de> <57112F31.8070209@garfieldtech.com> <57167C35.8080601@gmail.com> <57168FCC.7000507@garfieldtech.com> <5716BAF9.6000302@gmail.com> <5716BD74.9010101@developersdesk.com> Message-ID: <571782D8.8050901@thefsb.org> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:23:36 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5716BD74.9010101@developersdesk.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Improving PHP's type system From: fsb@thefsb.org (Tom Worster) On 4/19/16 7:21 PM, Rick Widmer wrote: > Are too many of these incompatible shiny things, too fast, the main > reason so many PHP users are on older versions? > > IMHO, yes. This would mean, by an large, that people had tried a more recent version of PHP and found that their code was incompatible. I think on the contrary that they haven't tried because they have little motive. A lot of running apps are in maintenance mode with no significant investments in new code, without which it's easier to take the attitude that it's not broken so don't mess around with it. Tom