RE: RE: [PHP] the state of the PHP community

Bob McConnell wrote:

> From: Per Jessen
> 
>> Bob McConnell wrote:
>> 
>>> In chronological order -
>>> 
>>> Languages: [snip]  C++ (Still don't
>>> understand the purpose of objects or classes).
>> 
>> Two words - encapsulation and abstraction.
> 
> Both of which are euphemisms that simply mean obfuscation. 

Certainly not.  All structured languages have abstraction and
encapsulation.  The minute you write a function or procedure, you are
abstracting and encapsulating.  C++ (Smalltalk, Eiffel et al) are just
very focused on those to concepts. 

> I learned very early in my professional career to eschew obfuscation,
> so they don't impress me at all. In addition, I really don't do
> abstraction well. I have trouble when I have to deal with more than
> two levels of indirection. Having written and debugged a _lot_ of
> real-time applications and device drivers, in both assembler and C, I
> am much more comfortable with the concrete, like managing I/O
> registers, interrupt controllers and circular buffers. 

I used to write system software for StorageTek (HSC, VTCS,
Librarystation), been there, done that.  It doesn't mean I can't
appreciate the qualities in encapsulation and abstraction. 



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Per Jessen, Zürich (20.6°C)