| Re: OOP versus Procedural/Functional [message #177587 is a reply to message #177556] |
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alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX
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El 09/04/2012 21:35, Mr. B-o-B escribió/wrote:
> I was curious about peoples thoughts in regards to OOP with PHP.
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> 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?
IMHO, OOP suffers from two problems that aren't actually intrinsic to it:
1. For many people, it's a religion. This leads to endless debates about
design patterns and implementation subtleties that replace actual code
typing. It also leads to teachers and teaching materials that focus on
how utterly complex and philosophical OOP is rather than how useful it
is. (There seems to be a endless flow of OOP tutorials out there that
explain how to code cats and dogs and, apparently, it requires many
lines of code.)
2. Discussions about OOP always assume that there's only one type of
application to be written and only one type of team to write it: the
mega enterprisey ERP financed by a big-bucks customer maintained by a
20+ team.
To make it worse, most of the noise comes from fairly experienced
non-PHP programmers who are forced to code in a language they neither
understand nor like and get frustrated when they can't make PHP behave
like Java.
OOP is a tool. It's a darn good tool and it's just one more tool: that
says it all. I suffer when I see a thousand lines of getters and setters
that actually do nothing and I suffer when I see a shopping cart build
on top of 5-level nested arrays.
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