Stas Malyshev wrote:

I do feel it is about time there was a little back-pedalling and asking 'What do we NEED in PHP'. Personally a lot of the things that are been 'demanded' are of little use to make PHP work any better, and only add to the processing time. If people want a fully typed compiled language why aren't they using python or java ;) My own development framework is phpeclipse, and that give me all of the hinting and error checking that I need IN THE EDITOR, I don't need the language weight down further with bells and whistles that do not improve performance of the end application. PHP used to be a nice nimble interpreted language that I can add pages to without having to compile anything. Nowadays it seems that those days are coming to an end? Keep the hinting and error checking to the tools where they belong.

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