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PHP 5.3 Released

Posted by timothy on from the phffp-phffp-phffp dept.

Sudheer writes "The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more."

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  1. Would you let it die already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's high time we forget about PHP and all it's bain-damaged design

  2. Re:Hooray fileinfo is standard! by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 1, Troll

    I use php and do enjoy it but it is ugly. There is no consistency within the function naming, using -> over . Or any other single symbol is dumb and __construct() but why two underscores? It's unnessary.

  3. Re:Looking Forward To It by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's also slow as shit, has bad/no real professional support, and looks even worse than PHP.

    Ruby tards are even worse than Python tards.

    --
    "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
  4. Comparison PHP - Java by Nicopa · · Score: 1, Troll

    Some time ago I *had* to work with PHP. I haven't known it before that. Now I hate it =). At that time I wrote a comparison, out of anger about PHP being so much used. This is the comparison Java - PHP I have wrote.