Re: PHP on .NET DLR

 Hello,

 Just search for ironruby, and you will see how much free publicity PHP has already missed. There is something called as the fanatical developer, people who are eager to try things and post about them. .NET is a whole another world, why shouldn't PHP be there too? To me, it makes no sense.  You are pointlessly muzzling the language and the developers from exploring a brand new territory, and ultimately this shortsighted decision taken now will be rued much later.

 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3641101

 I think I have beaten around the bush enough though. My real point is that I feel--at least that's the impression I get from reading the above press release about the MS-Zend Partnership--that MS pulled out from Phalanger at Zend's request. So I guess, there is absolutely no chance for PHP on .NET.

 My personal opionion is that this is going to turn out bad for _both_ PHP and Zend. MS, to be frank, finally pulled a fast one on Zend. They agreed to stop working on Phalanger, and they just switched their focus to IronRuby. Ultimately MS lost nothing, but PHP suffered, and is going to lose the really large number of VB/VCS devs would have come into contact with it, not to mention the countless enterprises who would now prefer something more cross-platform.


 If short sighted business decisions are what's going to determine a language's roadmap, it is a really terrible situation indeed. Language--at least to a real programmer (tm)--is something very personal, and to be constrained like this due to some miopic decisions, really makes you feel frustrated.

 Thanks.