RE: PHP on .NET DLR

I believe they hired the Phalanger guys:
http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=Phalanger

Andi 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Schinkel [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:48 PM
> To: 'K T Ligesh'; [email protected]
> Subject: 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. :)
>