{"id":11200,"date":"2008-05-19T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T08:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2008-05-19T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T08:21:57","slug":"php-6-hopefully-not-the-end-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/19\/php-6-hopefully-not-the-end-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP 6 – hopefully not the end of the road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve heard plenty of positive buzz about PHP 6<\/a> in the last few weeks.\u00a0 Yes, it’s coming out.\u00a0 Yes, it brings quite a few improvements, including better Unicode support, better security, and more help for larger projects through namespaces.\u00a0 However, I hope that it won’t be the last PHP release, since there are so many other things that need fixing.<\/p>\n

Here is a good overview<\/a>, as compared to the best programming language ever – Perl.\u00a0 But this probably reminds you of a famous Euro-English joke<\/a>, no?\u00a0\u00a0 But I do miss sigils and proper hashes.\u00a0 I’d love to see better memory management when programming objects.\u00a0 I’d love to see improved database interfaces with prepared statements and database abstraction layer.\u00a0 I would really welcome a cleanup in function names and return values. I … I … I … I hope that PHP 6 is not the end of the road, and that PHP 7, PHP 8, and PHP 9 will follow.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve heard plenty of positive buzz about PHP 6 in the last few weeks.\u00a0 Yes, it’s coming out.\u00a0 Yes, it brings quite a few improvements, including better Unicode support, better security, and more help for larger projects through namespaces.\u00a0 However, I hope that it won’t be the last PHP release, since there are so many … Continue reading PHP 6 – hopefully not the end of the road<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[243,36,38],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","tag-language","tag-perl","tag-php"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7402,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/30\/php-zopepython-and-perl\/","url_meta":{"origin":11200,"position":0},"title":"PHP, Zope\/Python, and Perl","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 30, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"There is an article at kuro5hin.net called \"Switching from PHP to Zope\/Python\". 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