# language integration: php vs. perl vs. java vs. python vs. c#

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- Started by Enrico Weigelt on 2004-04-16T14:52:48+00:00
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## #9256 — Enrico Weigelt — 2004-04-16T14:52:48+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/9256#9256

Hi folks,


I'm currently thinking about ways to integrate several other 
languages beside php into the zend engine. 

For example perl and php seem to be quite similar. Some perl 
experts told me, there're some things in perl which php semantically 
does not support, especially for OPP, but perhaps these come w/ php-5 ?

And what's w/ other languages, like java (at least source code, 
not binary). Does PHP-5 already provide packages, interfaces and
exceptions ? Could packages probably be emulated by the parser.

For java integration it would be interesting if higher-level-classes
(i.e. hashes) could be directly handled by zend's features or 
extensions (i.e. database connections, SSL, ...), instead of pure 
java implementations and so it would also be quite fast.

And what's w/ python ? I never really used it, but on some quick
looks, it seems sementically similar to java (but different syntax)


Would this be possible / useful ?
Am I perhaps missing or misunderstandung something ?


regards,
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## #9258 — Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg — 2004-04-16T15:16:22+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/9256#9258 · In reply to: #9256

> For example perl and php seem to be quite similar. Some perl
> experts told me, there're some things in perl which php semantically
> does not support, especially for OPP, but perhaps these come w/ php-5 ?

See http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-perl.php

-adam

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## #9259 — Derick Rethans — 2004-04-16T15:20:04+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/9256#9259 · In reply to: #9256

> I'm currently thinking about ways to integrate several other
> languages beside php into the zend engine.
>
> For example perl and php seem to be quite similar. Some perl
> experts told me, there're some things in perl which php semantically
> does not support, especially for OPP, but perhaps these come w/ php-5 ?
>
> And what's w/ other languages, like java (at least source code,
> not binary). Does PHP-5 already provide packages, interfaces and
> exceptions ? Could packages probably be emulated by the parser.

Perhaps it's a good idea to do some research what features PHP has first
before asking those basic questions.

> For java integration it would be interesting if higher-level-classes
> (i.e. hashes) could be directly handled by zend's features or
> extensions (i.e. database connections, SSL, ...), instead of pure
> java implementations and so it would also be quite fast.

Reimplementing all those things really sounds like a good idea; not.

> Would this be possible / useful ?

Possible, perhaps, but definitely not in the same engine that is also
powering PHP at the same time; useful, imo not at all. You have java to
use java, and python to do python, and the zend engine to do PHP. That's
how it works, and should be.

regards,
Derick