On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 10:43 -0600, Nigel Williams wrote:

> With hurdNg and coyotos I would gladly see legacy support de-valued (even 
> jettisoned).

> A goal to support ... PHP.

You do realize that these two statements are contradictory?

PHP, Perl, Python, and friends require a depressingly large degree of
legacy support. They all want something POSIX-like. Actually, it's not
so much POSIX per se as certain *ideas* that are common to existing
systems.

For example: try to imagine implementing any of these languages in a
system that does not have a conventional file system...


shap



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