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Way to sneak that in -- shouldn't this have been one of the FIRST things mentioned by Scream when this was announced?
I don't know PHP, and I do NOT have time to learn it, however easy it may be. I do NOT have time to figure out how to port all of my hacks into a different language. So people like me are simply screwed. We can keep our existing boards, and spend our OWN limited time trying to hack in any new features we want, or we can switch over to PHP and either spend AGES translating our hacks into a new language (unfamiliar to some of us), or LOSE all of our hacks.
You said it! This is also my biggest disappointment, this deal is already with this "little detail" quite bitter. I can only hope this will be reconsidered... otherwise, you can count me out. I really don't have the time to learn PHP, even though I would like to, but I have a very busy full time job (if that's what you call weeks with up to 44 hrs teaching!) that just won't allow that. I will just have to keep my modified 5.0.9er and keep adding hacks here and there... very sad... and disappointed indeed! With all the hacks my boards have, they are irreplacable and not offered in the release. Unless the perl version is continued, I seriously doubt I will upgrade ever again. []/testimages/icons/frown.gif[/]
