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[Chris Bielanski]

I'm sure more answers will be verbose and forthcoming but in short:
Never stop trying to learn more. Nothing about the "scripter's perspective"
makes PHP an unusable tool - in fact I'd bet most of what you'd deem
"experts" still use a lot of scripting (perl, if I had to guess) and code
OO-style all the same.

Objects are a nice, tidy package that allow your code re-use to become much
more efficient once you've got the knack of it. Yes, there are some things
that from a purely procedural approach would be quite annoying. The reverse
is also true - sometimes being strict about OO is "just too much stuff" to
complete a simple task.

To quote Larry Wall - TMTOWTDI: There's More Than One Way To Do It.

Welcome aboard, get a helmet - you'll want it for later. ;)

~Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Powell [mailto:phillip.powell at adnet-sys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 4:22 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] How many of you guys are "down" with Java/OO -
> like programming concepts?
> 
> 
> I am now learning how to write PHP not necessarily as flat 
> script but as 
> an OO construct, that is, classes, "abstract" classes, "interfaces", 
> Singleton Design Patterns, etc.  and it's really helping me out a lot 
> toward understanding how to come close to implementing it in Java.
> 
> Except for one problem.  The various Java programming and online 
> resources (and offline books I have) basically all inform me that 
> understanding Java from a "scripter's perspective" is flat wrong, 
> because Java is pure OO and involves concepts such as Polymorphism, 
> Encapsulation, Inheritance, even things like Beans and Struts 
> they claim 
> you cannot know as a scripter but as a pure OO programmer.
> 
> So I'm asking the experts among me for advice: should I continue my 
> persuit of PHP from what little OO knowledge I have?  Also, do any of 
> you share a Java background along with PHP and see any symbiosis 
> possible between the two and if even possible that a scripter such as 
> myself could cross over into the OO Universe anytime?
> 
> Thanx
> Phil
> 
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