Re: Function caching...

"PHP without OO is simply not acceptable" is a religious-like statement, as if it's a God-given rule. I personally never used the OO interface in PHP (Andrei - I did write quite a few PHP applications). None of them was huge, but you know something - I'd guesstimate that there are tens of thousands of people who are using PHP for medium sized applications, which means that PHP could live happily without an OO interface. I'm not saying that large scale apps must use the OO interface, by the way. I'm not saying that medium/small sized apps mustn't use it. I am saying that it's far from being crystal clear that PHP needed this OO interface to begin with. Note that the PHP object oriented syntax was born on a night when I was a bit too unsleepy, a bit too bored, and it was born as syntactic sugar for arrays. Zeev At 17:51 12/12/2000, Kristian Köhntopp wrote:

Sterling Hughes wrote:

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. That's why PHP has OO and why PHP without OO is simply not acceptable

Oh yeah, that's Alan Kay: "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible" Yes, Alan Kay of Smalltalk, Logo and Dynabook fame and one of the designers of the very first GUI. He is currently with http://www.squeak.org/ at Disney. Seemed only appropriate with the OO remark above. Kristian -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE AG Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel Tel: +49 431 386 436 00, Fax: +49 431 386 435 99 Using PHP3? See our web development library at http://phplib.netuse.de/ -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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