I would also like to express agreement with Micheal.
Code readability is extremely important. In PHP you're often working
with several different languages at once, and it's important to keep
that in mind (especially if you're working with other developers who may
be specialized in certain areas).
A few microseconds are important when speed is your *top* priority, but
rarely does it ever become that. As developers our job is to evaluate
the priorities that come into play and make the decisions that offer the
best balance.
tedd wrote:
At 9:38 AM -0400 4/11/07, Michael Southwell wrote:
There may well be. One issue that I have not seen discussed in this
connection is that of coding automaticity. If you *always* write
things in the same way, doing so becomes eventually automatic and
nearly unconscious. This situation minimizes errors and maximizes
speed, which is always a good combination goal. A good text editor can
make such jumping back and forth (or any such oft-repeated action)
extremely simple. In this case, then, what is optimized is not
execution speed/efficiency but rather coder speed/efficiency, which is
always (or at least almost always) more important.
Thank you.
There are some, like myself, who come from different language
backgrounds/customs and use that experience to program in php.
Additionally, if you are an "all purpose" web programmer, then you also
program in other languages as well (i.e., mysql, javascript, ajax, html,
xml, etc.).
The "jumping-in/out" boundaries between languages becomes blurred when
solving a problem in concert with different languages. I often look at
web programming not as several languages, but as a single language with
many different rules in which I have to find a common path. No one set
of rules can be applied to all, at least not yet. But the trend/need, as
I see it, is there.
Cheers,
tedd
_______________________________________________
New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List
http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online
http://www.nyphpcon.com
Show Your Participation in New York PHP
http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
