You're resuming all the story in the european RealPlayer case. The problem here is not include-or-not a media player.
The problem is: you cannot install a fresh Windows installation without put Media Player, IE, or the MS Search Engine. Or worse, you cannot remove them. This is the problem, not include them in the install CD.
All new dynamic language claims be more easy to learn than Java. But it's easy from a experienced programmer that ALREADY KNOWS OO. For a totally new programmer, the lack of brackets or ; at the end of the line is not a point of easiness, because the really hard part is learn OO, in Java, Python, Ruby or any other language.
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You're resuming all the story in the european RealPlayer case. The problem here is not include-or-not a media player. The problem is: you cannot install a fresh Windows installation without put Media Player, IE, or the MS Search Engine. Or worse, you cannot remove them. This is the problem, not include them in the install CD.
All new dynamic language claims be more easy to learn than Java. But it's easy from a experienced programmer that ALREADY KNOWS OO. For a totally new programmer, the lack of brackets or ; at the end of the line is not a point of easiness, because the really hard part is learn OO, in Java, Python, Ruby or any other language.
Maybe if Microsoft listen Tanenbaum and didn't put the video at the same level as the kernel, this will never happen.
I already did a lot of posts in the bugs.php.net, but always take too the "that is a feature, not a bug".
PHP is a toy language