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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by xs83 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:27PM (#22199049)
It is 12 years old - these were just before the first versions that had any kind of serious OO capability, however most apps were already built in the "Imperative" style that this is.

The hate for PHP on that gist is strong - admittedly back in the early noughties it wasn't fantastic but it was the shortest route to getting a functional website put up. PHP was simple and had a very low barrier to entry.

Latest versions are much better - The speed is one of its biggest draws, since version 7 it has taken the crown as fastest interpreted language, I believe version 8 will improve on this even more

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by jsjohnst on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:22AM (#22202362)
> It is 12 years old - these were just before the first versions that had any kind of serious OO capability

PHP5 is the release where most of the OO improvements happened (but even PHP 4.3 had a bunch) and PHP 5.0 was released 3+ years before this code snippet leaked.

I wrote a heavily OO based version of Yahoo! Address Book using PHP 5.1 in 2005-2006, so it was definitely doable and fairly common to do so by that time.

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