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Lead PHP Developer Quits
Jasper Bryant-Greene writes "Jani Taskinen, one of the lead developers of the Zend Engine (the engine that powers PHP), as well as a lead developer for the thread safety system and other core components of the PHP project, has quit in a relatively cryptic message to the php-internals mailing list. Jani has been involved with PHP for about 6 years and his loss will undoubtedly be a big blow for the PHP project."
PHP has absolutely nothing to do with GNU/Linux. It is a OS-independent, web-platform scripting language. You cannot compare PHP/Ruby to C/C++ and hope to sound mentally competent. But then, this would hardly be /. and not have an blathering troll running around.
IF this is legit, holy crikeys, batman!
This is one of the most unbelievably fucked up things I've ever seen on slashdot (even including Katz's earlier articles).
Israel has the right to defend itself. Frankly, they've shown incredible restraint considering they've been under attack incessantly since they were formed (now, their formation we can discuss the legality of, same with the legality of the existence of the UN in the first place...)
A predictable slashdot response. I am advising people not to waste their time. They should think about the architectural confusion they create by doing so.
an ill wind that blows no good
Actualy in large portions of the world
Armour = Defensive hardware. Armor = nonsense word or misspelling.
You forget the coders of such advanced projects, genious or not are humans too having emotions.
Some Israel supporting fanatic leaked the log, I really wonder how many days he stayed on that channel just to log some emotional response by a guy having very legit reasons for writing that crap on open channel.
Your kind of people logging the IRC channels, delibaretely missing information and wishing some great coders "doom" in the future for 7 lines of emotional text is the real reason why people believe conspiracy crap about Israel and Jews.
Perhaps some European company does not support Israel's recent actions in Lebanon will hire him with 2x the price. You will be very sad yes?
Can you give the name of the company you work for? I clearly don't want to use any fanatic hiring companies product. As Honeypot has also a meaning in intelligence community, like bots staying on IRC channels and logging whatever they can.
Out of curiosity, WHY would you do this when there are SO MANY superior languages available? I can understand using it for the web, it has great integration as far as that goes, and mod_perl is dramatically less straightfoward... But zend is just a shitty ripoff of perl, why would you use php for tasks for which it is not at all suited?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It is not stupid. I am neither lebanese nor muslim, nor visited Lebanon ever, but I see that Israel is a fascist state now. And Israeli people seem to support these war crimes. From now on I would avoid cooperating/dealing with any israeli company/business. This is what I call a civil resistance. I would like to avoid supporting Israel directly or indirectly. They are fascists.