PHP5 Co-Creator Interview

mandozcode writes "I came across an interesting interview with PHP co-creator Zeev Suraski at Open Enterprise Trends on the latest upgrades for PHP5's First Release Candidate (just released a week or so ago). Sounds like lots of improvements to help make it in the enterprise, including better bundled support for SQLlite and XML. Also encouraging, looks like Zend is getting more millions in VC investment."

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[larry bagina]

maybe they should spend less time adding new functions that don't work and fix up php's speed issues? Everytime php serves a page, it must parse the file, do syntax checking, convert it to bytecode, then interpret it. It should compile it to bytecode once and just run the bytecode. Perl, C#/.Net, jsp, csp, etc. all work that way, that's one reason they're serious languages for web devlopment and php is a toy.