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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."
I never spent 6 years with the same people, job, hobby, women, whatever...
You only need threadsafe PHP (gettext, gd, etc) if your webpage has more than 1 concurrent user.
Only pages with more than 1 visitor need to ca.. OOPS!
-Woof woof woof!
Now get back in the holodeck and strip.
From reading the mirrored post above it just seems terse and upset, but not really cryptic. Cryptic is stuff like "beware of the dwarf" and "under a big 'W.'"
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He's finish(ed) :-)
No no, that is not possible. He is a PHP developer, he can't possibly be lacking in security awareness!
Its just constant nagging for new features or bug fixes
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Personally I'd like to see thread safe php so I could play with some of the apache mpms
Unless you're some kind of Zen master you're going to run into this sooner or later.
Well, he is apparently a Zend master!!
Wow, quite a resume there. He will be difficult to replace. For that matter, he will be difficult to ereg_replace, eregi_replace, mb_ereg_replace, mb_eregi_replace, preg_replace, str_replace, or str_ireplace.
Sarchasm: This weather is far worse than Hurrican Katrina
Actually, sarchasm is the gulf in understanding between someone who makes a sarcastic statement, and someone who doesn't get sarcasm.
Sarcasm: "This weather is worse than Hurricane Katrina!"
Sarchasm: "What are you talking about? Hurricane Katrina was a major disaster, this is only a heavy rainstorm."
Both your examples demonstrate sarcasm, not irony. Irony is when the person responsible for the threading engine of a server-side scripting language resigns, and nobody can read his resignation letter because the server is overloaded.