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PHP 5.4 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

mikejuk writes "PHP 5.4 has been released, along with a new version of Zend Framework. It has a number of optimizations that make it faster and smaller (early estimates say 10-20% faster), a built-in webserver for testing purposes, and features that had been destined for PHP 6.0. The big addition from the now-crashed PHP 6.0 project is Traits, which are sort of a cross between a class and an interface, bringing some of the advantages of multiple inheritance to PHP. The full changelog and download page are both available."

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  1. Re:advantages of multiple inheritance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    GOTO is perfectly fine in some situations. Using a technique badly doesn't make the technique bad itself. It's just stupid users.

  2. It's better than Ruby's "best practices". by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The people who scream the loudest about how multiple inheritance or gotos are bad are the ones who also scream the loudest about "best practices", but in reality write some of the shittiest code there is.

    Just look at Java and C#. The worst Java and C# developers are those who go on and on about design patterns. Then instead of writing software that solves real problems, they spend months and years putting together frameworks and obtuse architectures that are damn near impossible to use in practice.

    Then there are the Ruby users. Basically everything they advocate is wrong. Maybe it lets you crank out yet another blog engine quickly, but what they propose falls apart completely for any moderately complex application. All it takes is debugging one problem caused by monkeypatching, and you'll immediately see how stupid their ideas are.

    JavaScript "programmers" are the worst. Their language is so fucked up, but most of them are so ignorant that they can't see this for themselves. I mean, they didn't even manage to get equality comparisons implemented in a sensible manner! Yes, very core functionality like that is broken.

    PHP has traditionally been just slightly better than JavaScript, in terms of developer stupidity, but at least they're making a small degree of progress in the right direction. We can't say the same for Ruby, though. In fact, we rarely hear about Ruby these days. The hype surrounding it sure has died down lately. This isn't completely unexpected. Consistent failures, like most sizable Ruby projects tend to be, can quickly kill even the loudest hype.

  3. Scan your code, folks by wimg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you want to get your code compatible, a start is to scan it automatically : https://github.com/wimg/PHPCompatibility - just released for 5.4 as well :-)