March 2, 2006

It is the revenge of the Spaghetti Code

Tim Bray has started a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of PHP. One of the arguments surrounding the code is that it is spaghetti code. I am sorry, but I would beg to state that most of the code in the world today is Spaghetti Code. Concepts and initiatives have arisen surrounding moving from procedural code to object-oriented code for well over the last decade. It has been few to rare occasions, which I have heard of a business completely re-engineering every line of procedural code into a brand new object-oriented system. It is a poor argument to exclude a language based on the ability to create spaghetti code. Almost every language has the capacity to be mangled by a poorly skilled programmer as it has the capacity to be dazzling by a great programmer.

Posted by Elyse at March 2, 2006 7:55 AM
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Even if PHP is well written it still *looks* like spaghetti.

Posted by: Tim Lucas at March 3, 2006 7:45 AM

Linguini Code!? PHP rocks, and it's sad that people are so annoyed by it's slow but inevietable take-over of the java industry, that they would take issue with "->" or other syntax differences; as though these differences even had a real-world impact.

Posted by: Me at March 10, 2006 2:52 PM
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