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		aussieguy1234 on Nov 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you ... 10 years ago PHP didn't have classes

cpburns2009 on Nov 14, 2018 | [–]

PHP 5 was released 14 years ago in July, 2004. One of its new features was OOP. Classes were supported at that time. In fact, a comment from 14 years ago shows an example class [1].

[1]: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php#46290

rpeden on Nov 14, 2018 | [–]

Sure it did. Classes in PHP showed up in version 4.0 18 years ago.

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