PHP gets a formal specification, at last
Found on IT World on Thursday, 31 July 2014
"It is about time a formal specification is defined for PHP, though the lack of one has by no means hindered the adoption of this programming language," wrote Al Hilwa, program director of software development research for IT analyst firm IDC.
Thanks to its copious use on the Web, PHP is the seventh most widely used language today, according to the latest monthly estimate of programming language popularity from development tools provider Tiobe.
Let's hope they can finally agree on the order of arguments required by a function. Sometime the haystack comes first, in other cases the needle. Or numerous functions which do pretty much the same. PHP needs a serious code cleanup and has to drop a lot of old ballast.