I just had to post this as a new thread to give it the audience I think it deserves. Matt Todd wrote:
No offense to Rasmus, but I don't think he's necessarily the one to feel comfortable aligning your opinions with: he's definitely motivated by his language, which, as I've pointed out, is stuck in what I called the 'Web 1.0 way'. (Not really meant to deride him or that way, just that I see that things are going to be changing towards this 2.0 way and I think we need to be aware.)
I feel very comfortable with aligning my opinions with Rasmus (my only hope he doesn't take offense - me being a bottom-feeder on the foodchain around here) there are good reasons: 1. he is a good programmer with tons of experience in the web field. 2. he started php. 3. he has worked on the Apache core. 4. he is an Infrastructure Architecture at Yahoo! (his system is bigger, badder and more Ajaxy than yours) 5. he gives us real working tutorials on creating 'Web2.0' stuff (as in rich-clientside browser based technologies) using php (you know _that_ language not ready for the next level of usabilty/functionality of the web) 6. he is a poster child for easy-of-use, pragmatic web solutions. 7. he is modest enough not to call it 'his' language even though other might do so (there are *plenty* of other great hackers who have made php what it is today) 8. you need more??? I doubt very much his motivation is the language so much as his motivation is building cool techologies. if he was that petty then I doubt very much he or the language he inadvertly created would have been so successful. the greeks had Zeus, 'we' have Rasmus. you had better be Agile[tm] because if you thought the last load of vitrole was bad wait until the shitstorm from the comment quotesd above arrives in your inbox. with regard to php being stuck - on the contrary it's moving so fast it's getting hard to keep up with some of the changes - that IT for though, no rest for the wicked. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
