Re:PHP 7.1.0 Released
by vesak on Friday December 02, 2016 @08:04AM
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They looked at the state of Java OOP at the time and just dumped that in PHP without considering the rather large differences between those languages.
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Re:PHP 7.1.0 Released
by drivingmenuts on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:20AM
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At the time, Java was the popular language and drove a lot of the thought behind language design. Go, Swift and others were not on the stage at the time.