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by ludovicurbain 5000 days ago
That article misses the point:

PHP OO is a HORRIBLE IDEA. if you're doing OO PHP, shoot your other foot right now and go learn PHP before using it java-style.

Why is it that every time somebody on HN explains that a technology is not suitable for a use case, it gets downvoted by fans of said technology ?
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theunraveler 5000 days ago
Why is PHP OO a horrible idea?
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ludovicurbain 5000 days ago
PHP OO is broken in many ways (of which you can find a list in the blog post "php a fractal of bad design"

PHP is naturally (due to it's C libs) non-OO and will thus only implement OO "that" far.

Lastly, OO is not a silver bullet and is best used only in front-end, and languages that were designed with it in mind.

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shakesbeard 5000 days ago
Well, OOP in PHP seems to work rather well for thousands of large projects out in the wild - making your argument invalid.
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ludovicurbain 5000 days ago
Well, smoking cigarettes seems to work rather well for millions of successful people out in the wild - making your argument invalid.

It IS possible to make "business good" software in brainfuck, that's just not a reason to call it "not broken".

See, this is about science, logic, and whether or not a feature is properly supported by a language, not about whether or not somebody managed to build and sell a solution while using that feature.

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