Note that this kind of programming is deprecated even in PHP. In any reasonably well structured project, you'll find that kind of code only in templates, if at

Note that this kind of programming is deprecated even in PHP. In any reasonably well structured project, you'll find that kind of code only in templates, if at all. From the article: | Rasmus represents what most non-PHP developers hate about PHP. | Rasmus generally promotes abstention from using frameworks, and the use of PHP as more of a templating language. To him, this translates to raw speed and scalability (load-wise). To everyone else, this translates to piles of procedural spaghetti code, and unmaintainable projects. For roughly 10 years following the birth of PHP in 1995, this was how PHP projects were written.