Traumwind - some people seem to be expecting too much

this is the second time in a row that I sent people PHP code on request and never heard back from them. Both times I warned in advance that the code was very KISS, and maybe even naive. Seems people have a perjustice regarding PHP code that a) doesn't use 'class' or b) MySQL.

Ok folks get this: OOP in PHP is cool. But it's NOT a measurement for code quality. Sometimes the problem at hand is just to damn simple to require or justfy the overhead of OOP. There's a reason I use PHP over Java for most things. And it's NOT to do that I don't get Java, believe me.

I do have the feeling there's somekind of OOP snobery going on in people who want to believe themselves to be real programmers.

Okay, let me state two things here:
a) I don NOT consider myself a 'real programmer'.
b) I write better -cleaner - code than some 'developers' I've know or worked with.

Only problem was many times: my code is often so drop-dead simple, 'real developers' shun it. Maybe I should start to add some OOP-noise, might further my job-secureness.

So there. That's the other side of my humble self. Rant ends.

excuses to all people who simply didn't find the time to comment on my code ;)

hint: read up on functional programming someday. OOP is not the only way to code-reusability

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