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One reason might be the ability to hire quality developers in sufficient numbers. The BBC is big, with developers (both internal BBC and external contracts) wor
by earnubs 16y ago
One reason might be the ability to hire quality developers in sufficient numbers. The BBC is big, with developers (both internal BBC and external contracts) working all over the UK on a wide range of output.
- bl4k 16y agoand any good developer can pick up and be proficient in PHP quickly
- poundy 16y agowhich is in my opinion PHP's greatest strength and greatest weakness. Weakness because not-so-good developers think they are good while writing code using register globals, no input validation, no escaping output, etc..
- MC27 16y agoThat's what I was thinking. Ruby, Perl and Python are all fine alternatives if you can find people with those skills.
- chromatic 16y ago... or train them.