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If you take this story, remove anything specific to PHP and then copy paste it a few times replacing PHP successively with Perl, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript th
by bithive123 14y ago
If you take this story, remove anything specific to PHP and then copy paste it a few times replacing PHP successively with Perl, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript then you have my trajectory as a coder.
Similarly, I wasn't interested in the computer science part at first either, but boy has the importance of the "managing complexity" part made itself obvious over the years.
Why is it that the people who take the time to blog defensively about PHP are typically monoglot coders? After my third or fourth language helped me understand what programming was at its core, I stopped using just one and ended up writing...a lot less code for any particular task.
- melvinmt 14y agoObviously the complexity of my projects have also been increased since I started out 10 years ago. But thanks to frameworks like Kohana I've been able to manage it pretty well. I'm not saying that I will never use another language (obj-c has caught my interest) but I will never use another language for the sake of using it - especially not when I can do more or less the same thing as with PHP.