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Strange, I learned php before I ever went to college. By time I went to university I knew 11 programming languages, so I don't think this applies to me.
by natmaster 13y ago
Strange, I learned php before I ever went to college. By time I went to university I knew 11 programming languages, so I don't think this applies to me.
- jnardiello 13y agoMh, not sure what you mean here. As you know 11 programming languages, you might be aware that "knowing your tools" is always valid and goes far beyond syntax itself. PHP is as capable as complete as any other language. Reasons behind most devs "hate" are mostly minor things and mostly a matter of taste.
- secstate 13y agoArgh! But he just gave an account of how it's syntax is often contradictory, and it's primary implementation slow and prone to scaling issues. Just because some orgs can wring a production system out of it does not mean it's the bee's knees. Far, far from it. PHP is functional, I'll give it that. But arguing it's merits in a world that has Rails, Django, Node.js or even Chicago Boss, is going to lose you friends amongst people who appreciate elegance and speed in their libraries and applications. As if you couldn't guess, my personal opinion is that PHP is one step up from CGI scripts in Perl5. PHP5 gained mindshare because your grandma could figure out how to embed a variable in a template and toss it in a directory that apache was already hosting with mod_php. And that, my friends is why we're even talking about PHP.