RE: PHP on .NET DLR

K T:

I ran a company for 12 years that sold components and tools to
Microsoft-centric software developers so I know a little about how
Microsoft's development division operates.  I highly doubt they will care
about a petition.  OTOH, if someone implements PHP on the DLR and does a
good job, they will at least recognize the effort if not embrace it and most
likely offer to hire everyone on the core team that did the work.  

In summary: spare the petition, write code instead.

JMTCW anyway.

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P.S. Your comment "I don't think the beauty of the language was the key,
since MS is the purveyor of VB, one of the ugliest languages around" falsely
presumes several things: 1.) that Microsoft has a single collective thought
process and 2.) that people's perspectives never evolve.  BTW, as languages
go VB is far less ugly than PHP in my opinion, but then I'm sure saying that
on this list won't make me a lot of friends. I am using PHP today because of
its momentum and marketshare (1: WordPress, Drupal, vBulletin, Mediawiki,
et. al. 2:Deployed on ALMOST EVERY webhost in the world today!) not because
of its language elegance.  But hey, regarding language elegance, I calls
them like I sees them. :)