RE: RE: [PHP] the state of the PHP community

From: Per Jessen > Bob McConnell wrote: > >> In chronological order - >> >> Languages: [snip] C++ (Still don't >> understand the purpose of objects or classes). > > Two words - encapsulation and abstraction. Both of which are euphemisms that simply mean obfuscation. I learned very early in my professional career to eschew obfuscation, so they don't impress me at all. In addition, I really don't do abstraction well. I have trouble when I have to deal with more than two levels of indirection. Having written and debugged a _lot_ of real-time applications and device drivers, in both assembler and C, I am much more comfortable with the concrete, like managing I/O registers, interrupt controllers and circular buffers. Unfortunately, there aren't many of those jobs left. That's one of the primary reasons I am looking forward to retiring. I still believe that OOP is as much of a fad as Structured Programming and Top-Down Programming were. They all can be used to solve certain classes of problems, but none of them are a silver bullet for software development. OOP will eventually learn its place in the overall scheme of programming, but it will never be universally applicable. Bob McConnell