[TYPO3-dev] relaease plans for typoe 4.2?

[Martin Kutschker]

John Angel schrieb:
>> Besides "stdWrap" and "data" (aka getText), "if" is certainly something
>> that has to be and will be improved. *
>>
>> What I am insisting on is that TS is a declarative not a procedural
>> language. I wouldn't change that, but you do.
> 
> It doesn't matter what TS is. Nobody uses it except Typo3 community and it
> is HARD to learn.
> 
> You are answering to my question like a programmer. I am talking about 
> wider perspective, not flame war TS vs. PHP. 

Hm, but it's you who wants to shift to a fully blown programming 
language which is IMHO harder to learn than e few configuration options.

In my opinion the gard part of TS (and any other language) isn't the 
syntax. That's easy - yes, also for TS. The hard part is to memorize 
which libraries/packages/extensions (ie TS objects) there are and what 
properties/methods they have.

 > I understand you wouldn't change TS, because you've learnt it.

Cerainly a point.

 > How long did it take? 2-3 years?

No. I grasped the syntax within a day but of course it took me much 
longer to work out how the objects are supposed to be used. An as I see 
it, using some superfluos similarities to PHP won't help.

What will help is to create a consistent and clean naming scheme and a 
cleaning up of the most weird syntax problems. I agree with you that 
"stdWrap", "getText" and "if" should be changed completely. And I'm sure 
they will change as, so it was my perception on T3DD07, a consensus to 
clean up TS, but not to replace it completely.

Masi