On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Wim Godden <wim.god...@cu.be> wrote:
> I agree that in most cases, that's a good thing. But it's also how we ended > up with a thing called the Y2k problem : stuff running forever. > > Disclaimer : I've been developing with PHP since 1997, so I'm very fond of > the language. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is true, but I think we can > all admit that on consistency level PHP has been at least badly damaged from > the start. So maybe we need to think about fixing at least some parts of it. I wouldn't compare the two... I'm not using deprecated stuff (although it might be someday :() mainly just saying while everyone has been extending PHP into Java-land, JSON-esque short arrays, lots more OO fun, namespaces, etc... I could still code anything out of the box with procedural PHP 5.2.x for the most part (with only a couple function and parameter additions added in 5.3/5.4) I've never had any APC issues - whereas OO code has had odd incompatibilities, and IMHO the obsession with OO has introduced more complexity into the language and everything related to it. Not the popular opinion I know, but that's what open source is all about, right? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
