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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. PHP Finally Getting a Formal Specification by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately, it's written in PHP, so there's some disagreement about WHAT is says.

  2. Re:Formal specifications are pretty useless for th by Tailhook · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, which is probably why this is coming from a Facebook engineer. PHP is pretty central to Facebook and Facebook has been re-implementing PHP for many years now. Facebook created a PHP to C++ translator (HPHPc) which has since been deprecated in favor of a new PHP virtual machine; HHVM. So Naturally formalizing PHP is of great interest to Facebook.

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