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Odd data point: PHP is well-represented everywhere except Lamda the Ultimate (no surprise there) and ... Amazon. Why are there so few books on PHP when it's so

Odd data point: PHP is well-represented everywhere except Lamda the Ultimate (no surprise there) and ... Amazon. Why are there so few books on PHP when it's so well represented in Craigslist job postings? My best guess is that books are a really lagging indicator, because books stay in Amazon's database for so long: there's no way for PHP, Python, and Ruby, or even Perl, to come close to catching up with C and Java, given the large number of C and Java books published before those languages were even invented.

chancho 18y ago
Perl is older than Java.
- lunchbox 18y ago
  Python is older than Java as well.
  - davidw 18y ago
    And so is Tcl for that matter.
Scriptor 18y ago
Actually, I feel that at some point in the past the market for PHP books was saturated. Until perhaps PHP 6 comes along, there is little need for new books. Additionally, the way many PHP programmers usually start is with online tuts and docs.