Comments on: Who is Pablo Picasso in PHP? http://www.thedeveloperday.com/great-php-open-source-projects/ Staying Curious Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rytis http://www.thedeveloperday.com/great-php-open-source-projects/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Rytis Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:33:32 +0000 http://www.thedeveloperday.com/great-php-open-source-projects/#comment-110 I think PHP genius is a person who can hide PHP face. That means hiding poor OO support, poor naming conventions and milions of version bugs. After few years being with strong OOP support language I see that PHP used against its nature. PHP had to be simple scripting language. Ok, you can change language to pure OOP but if you leave backward compatibility with non OOP versions most of the ordinary programmers will use their bad habits and some of the new features. Programs will be same crap. With PHP should be done something like Adobe made to Flash ActionScript 3.0. It was raised to strict OOP language. With this raise, most of the programmers who wanted to use new features, had to raise themselves too - learn design patterns, best practises and lots of other stuff. Most of them began programming while they were just a graphic designers and animators (like me). I think PHP genius is a person who can hide PHP face. That means hiding poor OO support, poor naming conventions and milions of version bugs. After few years being with strong OOP support language I see that PHP used against its nature. PHP had to be simple scripting language.
Ok, you can change language to pure OOP but if you leave backward compatibility with non OOP versions most of the ordinary programmers will use their bad habits and some of the new features. Programs will be same crap.

With PHP should be done something like Adobe made to Flash ActionScript 3.0. It was raised to strict OOP language. With this raise, most of the programmers who wanted to use new features, had to raise themselves too – learn design patterns, best practises and lots of other stuff. Most of them began programming while they were just a graphic designers and animators (like me).

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