[TYPO3-dev] release plans for TYPO3 4.2?

[Patrick Gaumond]

John Angel wrote:

> I do not understand why do you insist in using something that nobody uses
> anywhere and is extremely hard to learn? We can make IDE. We can make 
> syntax

Hi John,

I think that the first thing to consider is that there's more than 400 
000 TYPO3 websites, so at least it's not an impossible task to learn TS.
BTW, I'm really not an expert in TS...

And about the language that nobody use outside of the scope of a 
project, I got the same problem with Lingo, ColdFusion, Userland's 
UserTalk and many other languages made for a specific task/product.

May I suggest this hidden treasure:

TypoScript Syntax and In-depth Study
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_ts/current/


> I agree PHP was/is horrible, but it improves itself. We should let PHP guys
> do PHP and ourselves should focus on improving features of Typo3

That's why I let CoreDEV do the PHP thingny while I use a well proved 
configuration pseudo-language that hides PHP complexity.


> How to tell him that TS is not procedural and that he has to forget all 
> from PHP, which was the reason why he picked up Typo3 in the first place. 

I didn't pick TYPO3 because of PHP (or TS) but because I saw 
flexibility, features and power. Oh and that was in April 2003...

I just had to help a T3 newcomer 2 weeks ago. One of my first advice was 
to tell him he forget a bit about what he takes for granted and go with 
the flow instead of "fighting" against the system.

Two weeks later, he likes it ! But yes, he began to rant first.  ;)

Patrick