PC Magazine's Linux Solutions

Author: Joe Merlino
Publisher: Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Language: English
Number of Pages: 476
PDF: 6 MB
ISBN-10: 0-471-77769-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-77769-4


Linux was first released to the public in 1994. It was originally created by a Finnish college student named Linus Torvalds. He was looking for something he could run on his PC that would duplicate the functionality of his school’s Unix mainframe. Finding nothing that met his needs, he decided to build it himself. Deciding that he needed help, he released it on the Internet, declaring that anybody who wanted a copy could have one, so long as they made any changes or improvements in it available to the public.
Apparently, there were quite a few people who were also looking for the same thing, because an army of developers took up the task, and within only a couple of years, Linux was a full-featured system.

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PHP | architect 2008 june (06)

Oh, and forward compatibility. Now optimization is definitely more Greg’s kind of thing than mine, and Marcus doesn’t have much spare time these days, so I took it on myself to focus on that other thing. I went to look at PHP 6. The good news is that from now, all phars created using PHP 5.2.1 and up should run under PHP 6 and vice versa. The structure’s unchanged. Sing hallelujah.
The bad news is that a phar with a default stub won’t run under versions of PHP prior to PHP 5.2.1, whereas we had PHP 5.1 support this time last week. Blame: b and the binary cast. The default stub calls unpack(), you see, and PHP 6 needs to be told that the second argument to unpack() is a binary string and not a Unicode string. The only ways we have of telling PHP 6 this will throw a parse error in PHP 5.2.0 and under. There’s no way to have both backward compatibility and forward compatibility: we have to choose....

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