On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 10:57 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > Robert, > > C is a low-level language whereas php is a high level language. > ill admit it openly, i am biased toward oop / design patterns. > and i think what i boils down to is what you view as 'icing' > i view as 'bread-and-butter' ;) I've pulled Larry out of the CC list BTW :) I also prefer OOP when developing in PHP. > personally i shudder when i see a big pile of usntructured code, or > a bunch of functions that are loosly organized, if at all. this constitues > most php applications i have seen in the industry of which i have > been participating for roughly 3 yaers now. Oh I'd have to agree. Many things I've downloaded and looked at make me want to gag. But, that's not a symptom of procedural code-- it's a symptom of poor coding design/skill/style/ethic. > look at C++, Java, and PHP. these languages are all written in C; > they are high level, and although php allows you to write proceedrual > code, i think it is best used from an oop paradigm. That really depends. Just because we prefer to code in OOP in PHP, does not in anyway discount the merit of well written non OOP PHP code. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
