On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:19 AM, "Boyd, Todd M." <tmboyd1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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From: Paul M Foster [mailto:paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:18 PM
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Zend Framework...where to start? -- don't.
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I agree and disagree. I agree there's waaay too much herd mentality
in
the programming field. (Fortunately, Linus Torvalds didn't listen to
the
academics who insisted that microkernels where THE WAY, or we
wouldn't
have Linux today.) OO is nifty for some things, but it's certainly
not
the "fountain of reusability" it was originally promoted to be. And I
also agree about tables versus CSS. I can render a page very
precisely
with tables that would take me hours to get right with CSS. And I
really
don't give a crap about what "experts" say about anything. I find
"experts" to be wrong much of the time.
OTOH, I just finished writing about 80K lines of PHP/HTML, all by
hand,
no OO, no classes, no nothing. Each page in one file, except for a
few
helper functions in a couple of common files. I wouldn't want to go
through that again. I've opted for a framework on rewriting this
code,
just to cut down on the number of lines of code I have to manually
write. But I built my own framework, which doesn't call in 20 files
for
each page load. Very compact. Probably not suitable for every kind of
project, but it works for this.
Incidentally, I would differ from the reviewer in the link above only
in
this respect: He maintains that every line of code adds time. While
this
is true, I believe it's the number of files which have to be opened
which drags down framework numbers the most. When I wrote C code, the
CPU would blaze through the actual code, but file opens and reads
consumed far more time than in-memory code execution.
http://www.giveupandusetables.com
'nuff said.
// Todd
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Awesome :-)
Bastien
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