Zend Taking PHP In the Wrong Direction?

dvanatta writes "Is Zend taking PHP in the wrong direction? Ian Felton asks 'Why is PHP become more like Java, when the PHP developer community seems to want anything but that to happen? What is Zend thinking?'" From the article: "Data from a Zend survey completed in June 2003 (when PHP5 was still in major development) showed that the characteristics of the PHP community didn't necessarily match up with what was developed in PHP5. For example, with the ability to list three primary programming languages, only 18% of respondents named Java."

Re:Bad writing

[musselm]

Clippy is an editor for Devshed and Slashdot!
If that were true, all news articles would be in the form of letters.

"It looks like you're trying to bitch about grammar on slashdot again! Do you want some help?"

:)

Something to consider

[Laxitive]

If a piece of shit flies west at 60 miles per hour, is it going in the wrong direction?

-Laxitive

Re:The Driving Force

[sribe]

"Give 'em the razor, then sell 'em the blades" That's PHP and Java. Magically remove facial hair so you never have to shave again, that's Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

I for one do not want to program in a language that feels like having my beard waxed ;-)

(I am about to take a look at ROR myself, but your analogy made me cringe and cover my face with my hands.)