| Re: OOP versus Procedural/Functional [message #177567 is a reply to message #177557] |
Tue, 10 April 2012 02:29   |
Michael Vilain
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In article <9ugtdvFqubU1(at)mid(dot)individual(dot)net>,
"J.O. Aho" <user(at)example(dot)net> wrote:
> Mr. B-o-B wrote:
>> I was curious about peoples thoughts in regards to OOP with PHP.
>>
>> Are there pro's/con's of writing OOP code versus procedural/functional
>> coding?
>>
>> Strictly speaking for PHP, I do the bulk of my coding as
>> procedural/functional. I really haven't found any added benefit to going
>> the
>> OOP route.
>
> There is two minds about OOP, there are those who thinks is the way to go and
> those who thinks it don't give any benefits.
>
>
>
>> Am I missing something, or is it just a different approach to the same
>> problem?
>
> It's another way to solve the problem and there is a third way which kind of
> mixes both worlds.
>
> Read some more about OOP in general and get a bit better insight for example:
> http://www.inf.ufsc.br/poo/smalltalk/ibm/tutorial/oop.html
>
> The site may or may not be good, just got it as a hit on google, never read
> it
> myself.
>
> If you get an aha-moment, then OOP maybe is something for you, but if you
> feel
> it's just making things complicated, than stay with traditional functional
> programming.
>
> Many of the major big projects uses OOP, so it can be a good point in knowing
> how it works.
OK. I thought I was missing something by not immediately jumping on the
OOP bandwagon. My first language was FORTRAN and a friend had to tell
me about 'automatic variables' when I had a particularly annoying
problem that worked in FORTRAN but failed in C.
I picked up the php version of OOP because it made more sense to me than
Perl's implementation. There's to much of Perl I have yet to learn but
I was reasonably able to pick up php 4 and php 5's OOP model and get it
working on small stuff. Then I tried to get something bigger (phpBB),
it was an interesting mess of both procedural and OOP.
I stand by the "use what works when needed" rule. Sometimes it's a ball
peen hammer. Sometimes a sledge. Sometimes bazooka.
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