Brainfuck rox! LOL :) Sure you must see the changelog and other things but take a look: I can do more and better things with the next generation of the language in which i wrote my app, but i don't think that it's fair that my app doens't compile (if it was a compiled language) or stops executing just because i get an upgrade. On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Richard Heyes <richard.heyes@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > Sorry to disagree, > > That's nothing to apologise for. > > > But I think that with PHP4 a lot of people start thinking that they could > be > > programmers (maybe they can, developers it's another story). When php5 > came > > they didn't know how do deal with the deprecated methods and worst, some > > hosters didn't know how to virtualize a f1ck1n' server with Apache+PHP5. > A > > lot of mistakes were made when php5 came out but how can a language grow > up > > when they DEPRECATE the syntax? we're not talking about removing the last > > That's not the problem of the PHP developers. Learning is not a case > of spend a few years doing it and you're set - it's a life long thing. > > > Maybe I'm in a "GET LOST PHP" phase but I think that someone is killing > it, > > and the ones who are stuck in 4 are not helping. > > There are alternatives - have you heard of Brainfuck? > > > When U write code, U must not be worried 'bout the next upgrade of your > > server! > > Of course you should. Writing code with every eventuality in mind is > simply ludicrous. And you really should expect things to change when > major versions are changed - that's why release notes exist. > > -- > Richard Heyes > http://www.phpguru.org >
