Manuel,
Rather than whining about the future of PHP, why don't you be proactive and
take on the goal of raising the $100,000 for the project?
Fred Steinkopf
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From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Manuel Lemos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] The future of PHP
> > These guys resort to these marketing tricks to promote Python as hell,
> > and the PHP people just sits and waits doing almost nothing in
> > comparision to promote PHP as hard as they can even when they lives
> > depend on the acceptance of PHP as a wide spread language!
>
> Manuel, please, give this tirade a rest. Nobody associated with Python
> development was involved in this "amazing" marketing trick you are
> referring to. Somebody just decided to do this on their own. And now you
> are criticizing the PHP developers for not having the same foresight as
> the Python developers?
>
> It says so right in their FAQ
> (http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/faq.html)
>
> "And in answer to some of the more virulent postings on Usenet and in
> other venues, neither Guido van Rossum nor anyone else associated with
> Python development was involved in setting up this project, choosing the
> language, or defining the terms of the competition. Guido was only asked
> to be a judge after the decision to use Python had been made. If we
> had decided to use Perl or Tcl, we would obviously have invited Larry
> Wall or John Ousterhout to join the panel."
>
> If somebody wants to put up $100,000 for a PHP software contest, perfect,
> great, we will be every bit as cooperative as the Python developers.
>
> -Rasmus
>
>
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