{"id":6250,"date":"2018-01-19T19:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goofy-trucks.flywheelsites.com\/where-is-php-6\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T19:36:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:36:18","slug":"where-is-php-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phpbuilder.com\/where-is-php-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is PHP 6?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Scott Clark<\/div>\n
on November 6, 2009<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Back in 2005, I wrote a story for InternetNews.com where I wrote that I expected PHP 6 to be out in 2006. Here we are three years later and guess what? No PHP 6.<\/p>\n

Back in 2005, the promise of PHP 6 was to be the next big thing for the open source dynamic language. At the time, I remember joking with Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans about Perl 6, which is a release that also has been promised for years and still hasn’t been released either.<\/p>\n

Instead what has happened to PHP 6 is it has become the horizon of PHP. A place that you can see off in the distance, but can never be reached.<\/p>\n

It’s also a place where features are backported from, as was the case with the PHP 5.3 release which included several key features that were originally intended for PHP 6.<\/p>\n

Among the PHP 6 features now in PHP 5.3 is internationalization support.<\/p>\n

“The question is now with the internationalization extension, what is the gap and how much benefit do we get from PHP 6 versus 5.3?” Zend CEO Andi Gutmans recently told me.<\/p>\n

Personally, I see PHP 5.3 as a major release and perhaps a different language might have elected to give it a major version number. That said, Gutmans’ question about the relevance of PHP 6 remains.<\/p>\n

Now that much of the ‘guts’ of PHP 6 is in PHP 5.x, something else needs to become the marquee feature of PHP 6. Sure, code cleanup and optimizations are always important too.<\/p>\n

Now as 2010 nears as opposed to 2005, I’m not sure if PHP 6 will actually come out before Perl 6 does anymore. I’m also not sure that it matters. <\/p>\n

Read the whole story at http:\/\/blog.internetnews.com\/skerner\/2009\/10\/where-is-php-6.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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