[ciapug] PHP 6

[Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com]

Not to go off on a religious tangent here, but I would suggest that
PHP's complete and utter lack of encapsulation is a hinderance to
someone just starting to learn web scripting.  It certainly caused me
headaches.

For those new to the web, may I suggest Ruby?   :)

=Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Tim Perdue
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 4:27 PM
To: ciapug at cialug.org
Subject: Re: [ciapug] PHP 6

David Champion wrote:
> Did y'all see the slashdot article today about PHP6?
> 
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/14/0455221
> 
> I'd heard most of this info before. Most of it sound great, but a lot 
> of apps will need some work under PHP6. At least with PHP5, these 
> settings (register_globals, magic_quotes...) were optional. In 6 
> they're not supported.

For some reason, they are really trying to turn PHP into Java, instead
of the amature/hack language that it started off as.

We've rewritten GForge entirely on php5, and I agree it's a helluva lot
more elegant code in php5, but there's a big userbase of novices that
need a friendly language to start off in. PHP may not be that anymore.

Tim
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