[olleicua]

The problems of PHP have been well documented here: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... I think its relevant that PHP does object and classes in terrible backwards ways and, among other things, a singleton will necessarily be rather ugly in this context. Learning about singletons won't help anyone get a better understanding of other tools that exist. Learn Ruby or Python if you want to do web programming.

[jmathai]

It's like people in Ferraris yelling at people in Toyotas.

[1010011010]

It's more like people in cars yelling at people who have attached wheels and diesel engines to horses.

[jmathai]

What?

[olleicua]

Except if Ferraris were also really slow in addition to having bad gas mileage.

[jmathai]

You mixed up the references. But my point is that the argument is philosophical. And doesn't really matter.

People are out building and shipping stuff in PHP, .NET, Ruby, Python, C and foobar. And it all works. And users don't care.

If you believe all (heck most) PHP developers care that it's a fractal of bad design, then your view is way too narrow.