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Post #190,310
by JayMehaffey
1/15/05 8:16:52 PM
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New PHP started as less then a scripting language
The first version of PHP was just a way to embedd server side tags in pages for things like hit counters.

People wanted more and more features added, till somebody eventually added an IF tag and the race was off to create a real languages.

As PHP was used for more and more complex projects, the capacity for OO programming was more desirable.

OO is overkill for a lot of trivial web projects. But if you need to create a truely complex and powerful system, it is a big advantage.

There is a reason PHP is on version 5 when most other languages only have two or three versions no matter how old they are.

Jay
Post #190,346
by tablizer
1/16/05 2:10:29 AM
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New Them 'er fightin' words
OO is overkill for a lot of trivial web projects. But if you need to create a truely complex and powerful system, it is a big advantage.

Yeah right. Wherezduproof. Let's not go there today.
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     Tilting at windmills: classes vs objects - (drewk) - (35) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:26:04 PM EST
         Er, no. - (admin) - (14) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:35:32 PM EST
             Well ... - (drewk) - (11) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:41:28 PM EST
                 They're wrong. - (admin) - (9) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:49:05 PM EST
                     I'd say parallel development - (drewk) - (5) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:50:21 PM EST
                         I dispute that claim - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:13:16 PM EST
                             Exactly. - (mmoffitt) - Jan. 26, 2005, 08:51:54 AM EST
                         History of PHP in question - (tablizer) - (2) - Jan. 15, 2005, 03:57:57 AM EST
                             PHP started as less then a scripting language - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - Jan. 15, 2005, 08:16:52 PM EST
                                 Them 'er fightin' words - (tablizer) - Jan. 16, 2005, 02:10:29 AM EST
                     I think PHP's upgrades are just practical. - (static) - (2) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:15:54 AM EST
                         By "class variables" you mean "static" class variables? -NT - (drewk) - (1) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:18:47 AM EST
                             Er, yes. - (static) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:39:01 AM EST
                 What to say if someone says that... - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 13, 2005, 10:43:01 AM EST
             Nit - (dshellman) - (1) - Jan. 13, 2005, 10:53:33 AM EST
                 Actually, that's not a nit - (admin) - Jan. 13, 2005, 10:58:38 AM EST
         a class is a type of object - (daemon) - (2) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:44:44 PM EST
             It's tables all the way down. :-) - (ChrisR) - (1) - Jan. 12, 2005, 11:51:51 PM EST
                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:07:45 AM EST
         Very astute observation - (tuberculosis) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:10:32 PM EST
         Re: Tilting at windmills: classes vs objects - (systems) - (15) - Jan. 24, 2005, 06:50:48 PM EST
             I suspected that programming would eventually converge - (Ashton) - Jan. 25, 2005, 03:04:32 AM EST
             Do you honestly believe that this is from TCL??? - (ben_tilly) - (13) - Jan. 25, 2005, 09:21:46 AM EST
                 Amen - (broomberg) - Jan. 25, 2005, 08:20:59 PM EST
                 Re: Do you honestly believe that this is from TCL??? - (systems) - (11) - Feb. 2, 2005, 02:55:04 AM EST
                     think you had better be a developer - (daemon) - (3) - Feb. 2, 2005, 09:07:03 AM EST
                         Funny; I was thinking the opposite ;) -NT - (FuManChu) - (2) - Feb. 2, 2005, 12:31:27 PM EST
                             Ive met lots of developers that have no clue - (daemon) - Feb. 2, 2005, 01:25:40 PM EST
                             Neither - (broomberg) - Feb. 2, 2005, 08:29:41 PM EST
                     Let me get this straight - (ben_tilly) - (5) - Feb. 2, 2005, 08:48:42 PM EST
                         very loud VD (clap clap clap) -NT - (daemon) - Feb. 2, 2005, 10:11:52 PM EST
                         Then let me elaborate - (systems) - (3) - Feb. 3, 2005, 04:55:39 AM EST
                             "Systems", you should meet Bryce. Bryce, this is "Systems". -NT - (CRConrad) - Feb. 3, 2005, 05:42:13 AM EST
                             BTW, "Systems": Lay off the exclamation marks. Have some ... - (CRConrad) - Feb. 3, 2005, 05:45:25 AM EST
                             You sound like the Rincewind of programming -NT - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 3, 2005, 11:20:52 AM EST
                     For scripting, TCL is poo. -NT - (pwhysall) - Feb. 3, 2005, 10:13:05 AM EST

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