Are today's major frameworks capable of enterprise capable applications?

[TomB]

@tony_marston404

Your use of the word can instead of should implies that I am allowed to make my own choices then? And that one choice is not necessarily “bad” while the other is automatically “good”?

I’ll just quote myself…

@TomB

Not that this matters. You can either use an autoloader or use require_once, an autoloader has measurable advantages over not using one (Development time, repeated code, developer needs to remember less). Whether you choose to use one or not is again, anecdotal and irrelevant. Unless you can demonstrate a situation where an autoloader is inferior to another approach, your post is meaningless.

@tony_marston404

Who says that my choices are the worst? They still work, like they have done for many years, so how come they are automatically bad just because there is now a different way of doing exactly the same thing?

Given two approaches we can measure the differences and assess which is better, has fewest drawbacks/most advantages.

@tony_marston404

Flexibility cannot be measured scientifically

Of course it can, most easily by looking at coupling. Tight coupling is by definition less flexible than loose coupling.

@tony_marston404

And you keep missing an important point. There is no document entitled “Best Practices” which exists in a single place, there are simply thousands of different opinions in thousands of different places. Even if there were a single document it would never be universally accepted by all programmers. Each programmer has his/her own different opinion on what is best for them. I most definitely AM following best practice, but it is not the same version as yours.

And yet you constantly refuse to identify what these best practices are. When you attempt to you cite SRP, which you are clearly not following no matter how many times you claim to be.

@tony_marston404

How so? They directly respond to the question around which this discussion was originally based. You are the one who keeps changing the discussion into attacks on either my methodology or me personally.

You keep bringing your code into it, I am simply scrutinizing it. Don’t bring your code/methodologies up and it won’t get critiqued.

@tony_marston404

Can you point to any authoritative article which says that inheritance produces tight coupling?

Wikipedia is not authoritative. Here’s an academic paper:

http://people.ucalgary.ca/~far/Lectures/SENG421/PDF/oocross.pdf

. Inheritance introduces significant tight coupling between superclasses and their
subclasses.

@tony_marston404

No, you simply proved that you cannot read, and that you dislike any opinion which is different from your own.

Go and read the other thread, I posted some code examples (You still did not) to back up my point. You never said what metric you’re using to measure “better”, provide code samples or even expand on your point when asked.