Re: [PHP] PHP4 vs PHP5 Performance?

Robert,

C is a low-level language whereas php is a high level language.
ill admit it openly, i am biased toward oop / design patterns.
and i think what i boils down to is what you view as 'icing'
i view as 'bread-and-butter' ;)

personally i shudder when i see a big pile of usntructured code, or
a bunch of functions that are loosly organized, if at all. this constitues
most php applications i have seen in the industry of which i have
been participating for roughly 3 yaers now.

look at C++, Java, and PHP. these languages are all written in C;
they are high level, and although php allows you to write proceedrual
code, i think it is best used from an oop paradigm.

-nathan

On 8/25/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 10:33 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
yes, i agree, people wont be all-of-a-sudden ignoring php4, but the
notice on php.net says to migrate apps to 5 through the rest of the
yaer. id say thats ample time to move away from it.

Migrate doesn't necessarily mean ditching PHP4 compatibility. It means
ensuring you are PHP5 compatible. That's reasonable.

pretty much all of my applications rely on php5 features except those
where the system was running on php4 when i arrived. and then i
have to rely upon contriving mechanisms that are already integrated
into 5.
plus i place comments where i could be placing keywords. the success
of an application using objects in php4 relies heavily on
communitcdation
w/in the team, whereas w/ php5 the communication can occur w/in the
code
using keywords.

im sure php4 applications can be very robust, but why bother rewriting
things
that are available at the language level as they are in 5; and praying
that
someone doesnt call a method because they didnt bother to read the
comments..

Rewriting? You're assuming developers of PHP4 are using all of the
features in PHP5 but written using PHP4 code. That's not a very valid
assumption. You're also assuming they didn't already have code written
in PHP4 that was then duplicated b internal code in PHP5. Hell, many
PHP4 AND PHP5 developers don't even use OOP. Tell me what is compelling
in PHP5 that doesn't rely on you being an OOP developer? Exceptions
don't count since that's an individual bent. C has no exceptions and it
gets on fine (PHP is written in it :)

Cheers,
Rob.
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