note 81602 deleted from language.oop5 by colder

Note Submitter: Anonymous Reason: useless ---- I wish all PHP programmers would shun developing web applications using procedural programming! The year is 2008 and if you're still programming using purely procedural methods you're in danger of becoming a dinosaur (if not already). It's no longer a mature way of doing things. An argument is that small applications can still be coded procedural. Well, that must be a pretty tiny application! OOP *is* the standard throughout the software development industry. If web developers (PHP developers in specific) don't want to become dinosaurs then for the love of God please do not encourage procedural/spaghetti programming. Granted - procedural programming is not the same as spaghetti programming but the 2 are related. Take note though - making use of objects is not the same as understanding what OOP really is. The reason why PHP often doesn't get taken seriously is because it keep trying to cater for the spaghetti coders, and that's really frustrating. Experienced programmers often steer beginners away from PHP because can encourage some lousy coding. Anyone who started a Computer Science course in the late 90s or early 2000's will understand that programmers who do not understand OOP cannot be serious about programming. I started my Comp Sci course in 2004 and let me tell you ... if I tried to code an assignment using procedural programming I'd get laughed at by my peers ... and rightly so! Every programmer should know proper OOP practices and PHP needs to keep improving its OOP features to remain competitive.