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OOP is Mature, not Dead

January 7th, 2007

I ran across an interesting series of blog posts by Karsten Wagner claiming that OOP is dead (part 2 and part 3). The premise behind these posts is that OOP has failed to deliver and that it is on the decline in favor of more functional or meta programming techniques. Maybe its true [...]

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Building a culture of objects in PHP

January 13th, 2006

This is a follow up post to Why isn’t PHP the natural successor to Java?
Joshua Eichorn (among others) notices that active record can’t work as shown in the Zend Framework webcast. The syntax presented during the web cast is not possible in PHP because of inherited static methods are treated. Mike Naberezny notes [...]

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