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> [PHP] is highly accessible to people who don't know how to program The commitment to this claim is the source of contention. On "technical enough to write P
by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
> [PHP] is highly accessible to people who don't know how to program
The commitment to this claim is the source of contention.
On "technical enough to write PHP" vs "technical enough to drive a car": there's a much lower barrier to entry for the latter than the former. The latter is about the same as merely operating a computer. Derping around in PHP is def a level above that.
- kragen 4y agoIn both cases we're talking about a total training time of a few hours. My experience taking driving lessons and watching intro-to-programming classes make me think it's more like 1 hour to get productive with PHP (or Arduino, or Hypercard, or Excel) and 10 hours to drive a car safely without a driving instructor, but you could be right that it's the other way around. Regardless of theoretical considerations, it's clearly the case that at least hundreds of thousands of people have used PHP without previous programming experience, and from talking to them (and maintaining their code, eugh, and worse, tweaking their servers—via TeamViewer on one occasion) I think the dirt-simple deployment model is a major enabler of that. They don't have to learn about decentralized version control and build processes to get something running.