Scott Meyers wants to bring default zero-initialization to C++, mentions TDPL for precedent

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On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 12:12:42 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 19:09:48 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 18:52:02 UTC, Jack Stouffer 
>> wrote:
>>> For those of you who have never had the pleasure of writing 
>>> PHP, lots of PHP code does completely different things 
>>> depending on the compiler switches when the interpreter was
>>
>> Php is a dynamic language, that's different.
>
> Would you guys please stop calling PHP a language. JS and PHP 
> are not languages, they are a fiddly feckin mess, which 
> accounts for their high adoption rate. Sigh. Please, no 
> gainsaying now, no "Yes, buts".

You may say that, yet, it both are widely used. There are reasons 
for that, and people are idiot is not one of them.

PHP scales. This is why people use it. And this is why people 
will continue to use it. This is why Facebook, wikipedia, Baidu, 
wordpress and many others are using it. There is always a reason, 
and if you don't understand it, you are doomed to miss the point.