PHP5 Coming Soon

Grip3n writes "PHP5 is well under development and a beta is expected out by March 2003 and released summer 2003. One of the more notable improvements which many PHP developers desired is a substantial improvement in PHP's performance. This is due to a new object model PHP5 will be introducing which handles objects by reference rather than by value. Co-creator Zeev Suraski states the new object model is inspired by the book, "Design Patterns"."

Comments

Re:Moore.

[Alizarin Erythrosin]

Moore's Law has NOTHING to do with this. Moore's Law has to deal with the density of transistors on an integrated circuit.

The observation that the logic density of silicon integrated circuits has closely followed the curve (bits per square inch) = 2^(t - 1962) where t is time in years; that is, the amount of information storable on a given amount of silicon has roughly doubled every year since the technology was invented. This relation, first uttered in 1964 by semiconductor engineer Gordon Moore (who co-founded Intel four years later) held until the late 1970s, at which point the doubling period slowed to 18 months

Re:Issues with PHP

[ProfKyne]

Um, if you did that then you wouldn't be able to embed your variables in a string, Perl-style.

• PHP: "My name is $name\n";
• Java: "My name is " + name + "\n"

If you think about it, the PHP way is easier.