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It's easier to get up and started with PHP, which attracts people new to coding. I don't have any contempt for them. It's a language with a very low barrier t
by ajamesm 10y ago
It's easier to get up and started with PHP, which attracts people new to coding. I don't have any contempt for them. It's a language with a very low barrier to entry.
I have INFINITE contempt for professional programmers who (1) use PHP (2) have never used anything else and (3) vociferously defend PHP because it "gets things done" but then (4) leak MD5 hashes of credit card info in an error page.
Why wouldn't I be contemptuous of fraudsters?
- ixtli 10y agoI remember when this was true but I don't think it is anymore. Whenever someone asks me to teach them how to program from scratch I always introduce them to the REPL first. You know, "1 + 1 prints 2!" The easiest way to do that for some time has been the chrome dev tools.
- ajamesm 10y agoA JS REPL is definitely faster for zero to Hello World... how about to standing up a toy blog on a local stack? What's the comparative effort vs. PHP?