NYCPHP Meetup

[Brian Dailey]

I would also like to express agreement with Micheal.

Code readability is extremely important. In PHP you're often working 
with several different languages at once, and it's important to keep 
that in mind (especially if you're working with other developers who may 
be specialized in certain areas).

A few microseconds are important when speed is your *top* priority, but 
rarely does it ever become that. As developers our job is to evaluate 
the priorities that come into play and make the decisions that offer the 
best balance.


tedd wrote:
> At 9:38 AM -0400 4/11/07, Michael Southwell wrote:
>> There may well be.  One issue that I have not seen discussed in this 
>> connection is that of coding automaticity.  If you *always* write 
>> things in the same way, doing so becomes eventually automatic and 
>> nearly unconscious. This situation minimizes errors and maximizes 
>> speed, which is always a good combination goal. A good text editor can 
>> make such jumping back and forth (or any such oft-repeated action) 
>> extremely simple. In this case, then, what is optimized is not 
>> execution speed/efficiency but rather coder speed/efficiency, which is 
>> always (or at least almost always) more important.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> There are some, like myself, who come from different language 
> backgrounds/customs and use that experience to program in php. 
> Additionally, if you are an "all purpose" web programmer, then you also 
> program in other languages as well (i.e., mysql, javascript, ajax, html, 
> xml, etc.).
> 
> The "jumping-in/out" boundaries between languages becomes blurred when 
> solving a problem in concert with different languages. I often look at 
> web programming not as several languages, but as a single language with 
> many different rules in which I have to find a common path. No one set 
> of rules can be applied to all, at least not yet. But the trend/need, as 
> I see it, is there.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> tedd