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Not bashing PHP in any way (I'm a PHP developer myself), but what would you consider the PHP paradigm?

• Udo 13y ago
  I like PHP as well, however it's the wrong language to build byzantine OO inheritance structures in. Yet, that's what new feature development seems primarily directed at: new OO functionality that adds a lot of complexity and new opportunities for developers to shoot themselves in the foot. Listening to PHP core developers' presentations, I get the impression they're trying to imitate Java. The per-request execution model can be played as an incredible strength, but the moment some framework comes along, starting off by loading all of its code, then instantiating a myriad classes, subclasses, traits, and other crap just to serve a simple request - that's where slowness and bugginess comes from. I think simple objects do work well in PHP, together with judicious use of the powerful array data structure, anonymous functions, and on-demand code loading.
  • exizt88 13y ago
    > The per-request execution model can be played as an incredible strength, but the moment some framework comes along, starting off by loading all of its code, then instantiating a myriad classes, subclasses, traits, and other crap just to serve a simple request - that's where slowness and bugginess comes from. Really good point, never thought about it this way.