| Re: OOP versus Procedural/Functional [message #177630 is a reply to message #177627] |
Wed, 11 April 2012 17:09   |
M. Strobel
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Registered: December 2011
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Am 11.04.2012 13:16, schrieb crankypuss:
> On 04/09/2012 01:35 PM, 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?
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>> 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.
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>> Am I missing something, or is it just a different approach to the same
>> problem?
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> OOP is basically a good idea carried to an extreme.
>
> There is a boatload of value in the concept of inheritance, but that's largely
> negated by the mechanics of how inheritance is done in OOP languages.
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> Polymorphism is something that's more in the eye of the programmer than in the
> language, data constructs can be specific or generalized.
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> The idea that making something into an object gives it superior robustness is a joke
> if you can step back and look at it.
>
> I remember writing a Java application and trying to derive an actually useful string
> class from the garbage they had declared "final" and that was it for me and Java. I
> cannot begin to count the times when I've had to hoke up an object pointer to use
> some simple processing method that was part of a C++ class.
>
> Of course that's all personal opinion. I avoid all OOP constructs in PHP wherever I
> can, the more closely I can make it resemble C the easier it will be to convert it
> when the time comes. There is one exception to that in my code, one of the zip
> functionalities is only supported through some objects... that stuff is encapsulated
> in a subroutine.
>
> Since I value inheritance I've build myself a layered methodology that lets me
> override various functions by adding or inserting different layers at runtime.
>
> Perhaps the nicest thing about programming is that it puts the lie to religious
> adherences... as one of my college instructors put it, "if your program works for all
> cases it is by definition correct".
Second phrase could have been "But there are many more aspects of software quality".
/Str.
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