I have been in the computing / development business for a few years now. I have a pretty diverse background, from PL/I, IBM 3090 mainframes, to embedded applications on hand-held devices and proprietary radios. I have programmed in C, C++, C#, java, blah, blah blah. One thing I was late with was PHP, it was just one of those things that didn’t seem all that important. I think the idea of scripting languages in general put me off due to lack of structure implicit without object oriented implementation. I know structure can be had outside of objects, but objects just really force your hand (if you are really doing it right). I was doing function pointers in C with Vermont Views before C++ was born!

Enter Php5 (.2.3) to be precise, I love it. The power and simplicity of a scripting language with all the discipline of objects. Everything I try just seems to work! Kind of like C# using Java skills (well, that can at least be explained chronologically!). Anyway I just have to say if you are into objects and you have not given PHP5 a try, please do!