> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:08 PM
> To: Zeev Suraski
> Cc: Florin Razvan Patan; Lars Strojny; Derick Rethans; PHP Developers
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> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)
>
> hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Zeev Suraski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > That's not adaptation in my book. That's addition. It's not the
> > technology landscape that changed that now you need annotations; It's
> > that some people consider this feature cool and useful, and want to
> > import it into PHP although it does not in fact enable you to do
> > anything you can't do today, while it does add a lot of complexity to
the
> language.
>
> I can do everything PHP does in assembler, but I do not implement web
apps in
> assembler.
Actually no, you can't. You won't live long enough to write a meaningful
web app in asm, even if you live to be exceptionally old, and I certainly
wish you well.
Zeev