Sitepoint.com interviews PHP creator!

[eva2000]

Take a read http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php/767 :cool:

[chrispadfield]

hehe.. at least two of those where my questions :)

[Chen]

He sure didn't like some of the questions... :p

SP: Are there plans to improve OOP? Users feel there should be less overhead in instantiating classes; and the provision of encapsulation so that they can keep member variables hidden (promotes better programming). Are there any plans to this effect in the pipeline?

RL: Yes.

SP: Sybase and MS SQL Server provide support for multiple result sets returned from SQL stored procedures. PHP does not support this! When can users expect it?

RL: When someone contributes the code to do it.

SP: ZendEngine2 has plans for a number of exciting new features, such as Exception handling and mature OOP support. Can you give us a rough estimate as to when PHP users can expect a release - at least in terms of months or years?

RL: Nope. It will be released when it is ready.

SP: Do you think major corporations will use PHP in their environments instead of J2EE and .NET in the future?

RL: Some do, so yes.

[chrispadfield]

Yeah, the last few responses where a bit short. Guess he had had enough by then. I was looking forward to hearing about OOP so that was a shame.

[Freddie Bingham]

Most of his answers where rather standoffish. Perhaps he should not give interviews regarding the subject :)

[Chen]

Originally posted by freddie
Most of his answers where rather standoffish. Perhaps he should not give interviews regarding the subject :)
I thought so as well, I expected a bit more after Yank's praising prologue.