..to spite his face.
Read this (quoted below)
<_sniper_> all other members of the UN security council
wanted to condemn Israel for attacking the UN post but USA (freedom and
democracy) vetoed it....Israel says the resolution was fair.
<_sniper_> hell yeah..
<_sniper_> NUKE ISRAEL!
.....
<_sniper_> FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about
me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last
straw for me. Fuck you jews.
<_sniper_> I will also quit this
project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to
have anything to do with it.
<_sniper_> Good bye.
<-- _sniper_ (~jani@a88-112-115-63.elisa-laajakaista.fi) has left #php.pecl
Then read this
He might be a brilliant coder, but he’s shown himself to be quite the idiot. It’s not like Zend killed anyone.
Quite what this means for the PHP project is anyone’s guess but I think I’ll buy that Ruby book now.
Here’s an artist’s impression of the Zend developer directory page for Jani today:
(Click to enlarge)
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July 28, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Rikki
Allow me to quote a digg user:
“Religion and politics: fucking up the world for the rest of us”
July 28, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Chris Boulton
Sucks he is gone but like you said, quite the idiot.
Though – he may come back. He’ll get over it eventually.
By the way, you can check out what he was involved with here: http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=sniper
RoR sounds like a good idea. Heh.
July 28, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Matt T.
do go out and buy that ruby book, then you’ll realised why the php developer cut off his nose. Once you learn advanced Ruby, you’ll notice how many features php lacks. (Lexical blocks, Hashes, Static Object Extension, Namespaces, Inline Funcitons, Nested Classes, Nested Static Objects, Inline functions, EVERY DATATYPE IS AN OBJECT, Hash & Array shortforms, collected arguments, Interactive Shell, STD Lib is Properly Namespaced, automatic ARGV Interpretation, INLINE REGEXP, class arrays & hahses, and of course all operands are objects). Just to clear that last one, if i wrote
class MyClass
def [](index)
# access data
end
end
i could access operands from that object, so i could use MyClass both as an array and an OBJECT!.
Trust me, once you go from PHP to Ruby, youll be cutting your nose off!.
July 28, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Matt T.
in addition to my last comment, don’t buy a ruby book, read Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, it’s become almost a ‘cult hit’ amoung the ruby community.
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
July 28, 2006 at 3:48 pm
sipefree
This is crazy. People can be such fools. But seriously, read Why’s Poignant Guide, but don’t give up on PHP yet.
We can only hope there are people to replace this guy.
July 28, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Zef Hemel
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July 28, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Dean Clatworthy
He’s crazy, you can’t go around saying those kind of things in public!
July 28, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Jack Chapple
That’s quite.. shocking.
I don’t quite understand how/why anyone with such high respect would even consider thinking of throwing it away along with his dignity like that. Especially on a subject that he doesn’t really appear to actually know too much about.
What a waste…
July 29, 2006 at 12:50 am
leapius
I really don’t think PHP is all of a sudden doomed to failure just because ONE developer has left it (regardless of reasons). I look at Ruby and find myself pretty lost tbh, maybe that’s because I grew up with more conventional languages and made the transition from perl to php easily. Converting my php code to ruby looks like a BIG task and one which I think I will opt out of for now! lol.
July 29, 2006 at 4:38 am
Don Wilson
Excuse me while I yawn. There are a thousand people out there that are willing and able to replace him and won’t act like such an idiot.
July 30, 2006 at 7:27 pm
ParK
dont judge him …
he says “it’s backed by some Israel company”,
July 31, 2006 at 7:11 pm
whitetigergrowl
I think before that guy goes off the handle, he needs to further understand the situation he’s talking about. Which its obvious he doesn’t.
July 31, 2006 at 8:04 pm
whitetigergrowl
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html
Photos that damn Hezbollah
Some people just dont understand the situations that go on in the world. Rather than do informative research before making a more informed decision, they would rather jump to conclusions and make irrational decisions.
July 31, 2006 at 8:33 pm
The One
good show on cspan tomorrow http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=546878176
August 1, 2006 at 1:37 am
David
This is just silly, well you already said it he is quite an idiot but
What’s the company have to do with the project? Infact what is the whole problem have to do with the project?
But then again after those actions even if he comes back he probably going to have problems because of the way he acted.
August 2, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Tom
Although I believe what the israeli army is doing is wrong this guy is out of order. What would you do if a business partner of yours turned round to you and said “I refuse to work for you because your country was invlolved in the iraq war”. You’d be mortified that someone could be so stupid.
August 2, 2006 at 10:40 pm
David S.
Seems like an idiot to do that. I would stick with PHP because, like everyone said, someone else will be able to replace him. Learning RoR might be a good idea though, considering it’s Python based.
August 3, 2006 at 9:00 am
Le Phantom
I want to quote Tom:
“”" What would you do if a business partner of yours turned round to you and said “I refuse to work for you because your country was invlolved in the iraq war”. You’d be mortified that someone could be so stupid. “”"
Why is that stupid? How exactly am I going to influence what, say, the US or Israeli governmnet is doing?
I can’t vote any of those places.
But I can say no to US and Isreali business, and I can tell my business partners why. And now they can decide for themselves what they want most for themselves: Their government or my business.
And if they decide that my businiess is more important, they might tell their government to change. And if thousands like me do this, it might end up being tousands of companies telling their government to change.
And that might actually make a difference. And that’s needed these days, as the world is slowly going to hell by the hands of fundamental muslims, the Bush administration and Israel.
This is about not just sitting back and accepting whatever our and our (supposedly) friends’ gouvernments do. It’s about taking a stand, and caring.
And how is that stupid?
Saying “I hate all jews” is of course just as little acceptable as saying “I hate all muslims”.
And still, what does ***saying*** “I hate all jews” communicate compared to actually killing thousands and tousands of muslims…?
It’s easy to to say “people need to understand how the world is connected”. Even when you don’t really get it yourself
It’s sad about that PHP programmer and the future of PHP, but it’s only business. Not peoples’ lives, as in taking them abruptly away. And still, some people seem more provoced and saddened by the fact that php might be in trouble, than the fact that Iraq is a burning wreck and Lebanon is one huge bomb crater.
Shame on you!
- Le Phantom, civil engineer in electronics, Norway, and former customer of an isreali company.
P.S. I could’ve quoted Rikki for truth!
August 3, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Millar
http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=sniper
Now returns: Entry removed at user’s request.
Hmm, that doesn’t look good.
August 4, 2006 at 2:30 am
nickg78
They have changed the page, it now redirects to the PHP credits info.
August 5, 2006 at 10:34 pm
Veracon
I’m not going to say I disagree with him (take a hint?), but it definitely wasn’t clever to go out and shout it in public.
Especially not when one is such a prominent figure.
August 10, 2006 at 3:39 am
Michael Merritt
The irony of it all? Zend is based out of Cupertino, California, USA, though they do have an office in Israel.