> Can we stop calling things "new shiny features" as if that means anything? It's > empty rhetoric. When you treat your users like unintelligent noobies who are > just going to hang themselves when you give them a rope, then that's the type > of users you will end up with.
If it doesn't mean anything, why does it bother you? You don't need to be dumb to appreciate simplicity, and you can be very intelligent and still appreciate complexity. The people behind J2EE were all exceptionally smart. PHP has become the most popular Web language in existence WITHOUT these features. Most users couldn't care less about them. They're happy without them. They're happ*ier* without them. They'd rather a faster PHP that did exactly the same thing it does today - and not a slower one with more features that's more difficult to learn and debug. The whole concept of 'WE MUST ADD THIS TO PHP OR ELSE' is ludicrous in my opinion. PHP is doing well, and many of the people who opposed this RFC are responsible for steering it that way. Zeev -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
