Re: PHP on .NET DLR

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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. :)
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 I come from a pure C background. Don't write procedural code at all. Write pure OO code. Then what you have a really beautiful C like language written in OO.  Php should have been called C script, as in, it is pure C with scripting capabilities. Anyone for a namechange? :-) The reason for PHP's success is also this. Everyone has come into touch C some way or the other. It is simply unavoidable, and in PHP what we have is a C scripting language.

 Thanks.