WP was itself released a little after PHP acquired classes; before that PHP was purely procedural. However, WP was a fork of an older project, and they kept thi

WP was itself released a little after PHP acquired classes; before that PHP was purely procedural. However, WP was a fork of an older project, and they kept things procedural in order to maintain backwards compatibility with the previous project. One cannot fault them for that decision in that context. However, apparently we are stuck with the consequences for the foreseeable future. On that basis, I wish that Google were not investing any further time and effort into what I sincerely hope can be described as the last popular procedural codebase in existence.