RE: PHP on .NET DLR

The work Zend and Microsoft do together in order to improve PHP on the
Windows platform is in no way related to Phalanger and it will
definitely not prevent Microsoft from investing in this direction if
they choose to. In that interview when I say "We", I mean Zend. Yes, I
am not thrilled about investing in a fork of PHP (which Phalanger would
be) but there's absolutely nothing (in the spirit of open-source) which
would prevent you or Microsoft from making it happen.

In fact, as you feel so passionate about doing this why doesn't lxlabs
(or you personally) invest in making it happen? It takes passionate
people to build this stuff and you've definitely got enough of it :)

Andi


> -----Original Message-----
> From: K T Ligesh [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 1:20 PM
> To: Rasmus Lerdorf
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: PHP on .NET DLR
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>  Hello,
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>  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.
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>  http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3641101
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>  Thanks.
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