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I really enjoy PHP: I learned on it and in doing so became familiar with its numerous idiosyncrasies. However, and I know this is a weird sentiment, I'm waitin
by verisimilitude 15y ago
I really enjoy PHP: I learned on it and in doing so became familiar with its numerous idiosyncrasies. However, and I know this is a weird sentiment, I'm waiting for it to fall out of favor. Then, hopefully, most everybody new to programming/scripting will move on and the community supporting PHP will be pared down. The release cycle will slow, and the gains the language has made can be consolidated and stabilized.
But that's me: I'd rather code in a quiet backwater (e.g. PHP in the future, when everyone has moved on) than be screaming along the cutting edge. Such a goal is definitely the opposite of many.
- bonzoesc 15y agoPHP isn't a quiet backwater, it's a cutting-edge when you should have stable, well-tested code (security-related functions like crypt()), and a backwater when you want to be cutting-edge (object-oriented and functional paradigms).