[nikic]

I think he is mocking the general pattern of over-engineering and PHP just happens to be the language he wrote this in.

At least PHP is not a language known for massive over-engineering. Usually people associate the exact contrary with PHP.

But there is indeed a recent trend towards better object oriented designs in PHP and with it comes also more over-engineered code. But I have yet to see any Java-style absurdity. Maybe we'll still get to that ;)

[jonascopenhagen]

> I have yet to see any Java-style absurdity.

Then you probably haven't tried Zend Framework ;)

[polychrome]

So what am I in for with Drupal 8 since the two communities are combining?

[msp]

Drupal 8 will use Symfony2 components, not Zend.

[polychrome]

Thanks for correcting me msp. I must have misread that!

[jablan]

Don't you think that, when it comes to OOP features, PHP recklessly introduced lots of Javaisms which lose lot of sense when applied to a dynamically typed language? I believe the author had exactly that in mind.

[johnny22]

definitely not. can you name one feature that has been added that isn't useful to a dynamically typed language?

The only one i can think of is object type hinting which alone isn't that big of a deal.

[jablan]

Umm... Interfaces? Abstract methods and classes? Finals?

[polychrome]

Yeah ... Take a look at Drupal 8 and you'll start to see this creeping in. I overheard Dries saying he wants to see Java style comments and wants to be more like Java.