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Changes In Store For PHP V6

Posted by kdawson on from the ready-or-not dept.

An anonymous reader sends in an IBM DeveloperWorks article detailing the changes coming in PHP V6 — from namespaces, to Web 2.0 built-ins, to a few features that are being removed.

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  1. Content free summary by mrbluze · · Score: 0, Troll

    Crikey, I can't believe I have to RTFA to come up with something funny to say about this short-ass summary!

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  2. Re:Is this really news? by Linker3000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You moan - yet you took the contract.

    Biting the hand that feeds you just a tad!?

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  3. Re:what's with the 'phpsucks' tag? by hardburn · · Score: 0, Troll

    People have written that article, and it's generally responded to by a lot of jumping up and down.

    At this point, I'm content to leave PHP as a way to vacuum the dreck out of the Perl community.

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  4. Re:Is this really news? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 0, Troll

    s/unicode/$foo/gi

    I suspect this will be modded troll, and that would be fair. Go ahead. Has to be said, though.

    Some languages, I see the point of. I understand why Visual Basic still exists, even if I despise it. I understand why C exists, and even why Java exists.

    PHP, I just don't get. Why bother? It's Perl, minus a bunch of features, in a templating language. As soon as you discover that other languages can be embedded into a webpage, too, I cannot think of a single thing that PHP does better than just about anything short of C intended for developing web apps.

    The one thing that I can appreciate about PHP is the massive amount of stuff that's already written in it -- like COBOL, it will remain popular and used for that reason alone. But unlike COBOL, it continues to be actively developed, and used for new projects. Why?

    Were it just about anything else, people might come to me with code samples, showing at least one niche thing that their pet language does beautifully, or at least, that they believe shows it lacks a weakness of some other language. Prove me wrong -- show me some beautiful PHP code.

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  5. Re:Backwards compatibility is very important by njcoder · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, actually very soon you will need to update your server. PHP4 is no longer being updated - this means security and all types of other bugs, including data loss/critical bugs. Yes, if only they thought to write it under an open source license so that the many people that stayed with php4 and will continue to do so could write their own fixes for any major bugs that have not already been discovered.
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