Re: Classes Suck

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:23:12PM -0300, Randall Goguen wrote: > Object Oriented Programming (OOP) sucks, it makes things more complicated, > harder to debug, and produces bloated programs. Funny, I might say similar things about your signature. > Randall Goguen (aka Ranman) > > ......... Escape the 'Gates' of Hell > `:::' ....... ...... > ::: * `::. ::' o~o > ::: .:: .:.::. .:: .:: `::. :' /V\ Phear the Penguin > ::: :: :: :: :: :: :::. // \\ > ::: .::. .:: ::. `::::. .:' ::. /( )\ > ...:::.....................::' .::::.. ^^-^^ > > ranman@nbnet.nb.ca > #PHP IRC EfNet > #LinuxSupport IRC EfNet > http://www.LinuxGuruz.org > Plain PHP can always do the job just fine. Granted, everything gets broken down into procedural code anyway, but you really can't beat OO style for abstracting interfaces and encapsulating code. There are also numerous advantages to using inheritance, and you can fake polymorphism pretty good in PHP. This allows the construction of abstracted interfaces, such as the PEAR database interface. That would be really hard to do (well) using procedural PHP. -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member