On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 07:02 +1000, Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Yeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It will still take some time until every provider has PHP5 running, at least > > where I am from. I have many customers who want me to get their sites > > running on some cheap webspace they got along with their internet > > connection. Then you have to tell them it won't work because of some problem > > with the versions. I would love to write code for PHP5+ only.This is a > > terrible excuse for using > > PHP 4. Today, July 13, marks 4 years since > the release of PHP 5.0. _4 YEARS_ to move applications and code to PHP5. > > Its either apathy or incometence.
I think apathy... for those who don't give a damn about OOP or the advanced OOP features, PHP5 brought little to the table while often requiring work to get your code there. Then followed multiple versions each with their own quirks all the while tightening a noose of OOP correctness around the developer who didn't care about some purists OOP philosophies. Finally, and this isn't particularly true anymore, PHP5 was much slower in earlier versions. And yes, I've modified my own code as things have progressed, but I certainly do have clients that didn't want me wasting their money converting their code-base (not originally written by me) to PHP5. And yes, I've seen terrible things in the code that PHP5 certainly did break. And again, yes, some of this was due to poor coding on the original developer's part... but hey, it DID work in PHP4. By forcing an end of life, PHP did a favour to all those developers who couldn't really make the case to their bosses or clients by forcing it upon them. The issue became much more salient at that point. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
