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PHP Finally Getting a Formal Specification

Posted by timothy on from the let-the-ossification-ceremony-commence dept.

itwbennett (1594911) writes "Despite becoming one of the most widely used programming languages on the Web, PHP didn't have a formal specification — until now. Facebook engineer and PHP core contributor Sara Golemon announced the initiative at OSCON earlier this month, and an initial draft of the specification was posted Wednesday on GitHub."

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  1. Re:its why devs cringe. by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Python has emerged a juggernaut to contend with in RESTful coding environments.

    Putting aside the whole whitespace debate(*), I'm pretty sure that python has its own list of issues. Maybe not to the same extent as PHP, but they exist.

    * For which I personally do have trouble with python - I want the computer to bend to my will, not the other way around.

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