[wp-hackers] PHP5

[madalin]

I must say that this is starting to look interesting. Please proceed :)

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Joost de Valk <joost at yoast.com> wrote:
> Jacob,
>
> as a former Theology student, I'll ask you kindly not to go into this
> discussion with me, before you know it, we'll be discussing how many angels
> fit on an wp_init action :)
>
> Best,
> Joost
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Jacob Santos wrote:
>
>> Blasphemy! You sir have insulted my religion and I demand an apology.
>> There is no evidence to the contrary that Matt Mullenweg is not currently
>> God [1], therefore I reserve the right to believe him to be so. Just like
>> you can neither disprove Christianity (nor prove it for that matter either).
>>
>> Also, I kind of killed a few goats and kind of drank their blood, so like,
>> um, I'll feel really stupid if Matt wasn't God. (Hail Satan!)
>>
>> Jacob Santos
>>
>> [1] His saying to the contrary of himself being god doesn't not prove that
>> he is not god.
>>
>>
>> Joost de Valk wrote:
>>>
>>> OMG, did I really start this? :)
>>>
>>> My perspective: Matt isn't god, but he decides in these matters, I just
>>> want to hear his verdict :)
>>>
>>> On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Jacob Santos wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lets list the reasons for and against going PHP5:
>>>>
>>>> Against:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Matt Mullenweg be hating PHP5 and he be the God. (Hail Satan!)
>>>> 2. It would leave out 40% of current users (from last posted statistics
>>>> from last year).
>>>> 3. Did I mention Matt Mullenweg not liking PHP5? Okay, good.
>>>>
>>>> For:
>>>>
>>>> 1. PHP5 is faster than PHP4 (Most benchmarks of PHP 5.2.x show
>>>> considerable improvement, PHP5.3 is so much faster than PHP4, that they
>>>> didn't even attempt to compare it).
>>>> 2. PHP5 has PDO, and mysqli.
>>>> 3. PHP5.3 has namespaces!
>>>> 4. PHP5.3 has closures! No more create_function nonsense, you'll be able
>>>> to actually create a real lambda and closure for usage in
>>>> preg_replace_callback().
>>>> 5. PHP5 has better object oriented support, re: visibility, true static
>>>> methods and members, class constants.
>>>> 6. PHP5 has OO chaining: $obj->this()->shit()->is()->awesome();
>>>> 7. Actually being worked on actively (PHP4 is EOL early last year and no
>>>> updates for about 8 months now).
>>>>
>>>> So I mean, supporting PHP4 only really has one reason for going for it
>>>> and PHP5 has many reason!
>>>>
>>>> Jacob Santos
>>>>
>>>>
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