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I think by "self-assessment" is meant something more like "self-regard", the whole being taken to mean that PHP programmers have a relatively high opinion of th
by aaronem 12y ago
I think by "self-assessment" is meant something more like "self-regard", the whole being taken to mean that PHP programmers have a relatively high opinion of themselves, which is not justified by the code they generate.
I gather the author is perhaps not a native speaker of English, so perhaps this is a subtlety which has simply passed him by. As such, I've opened an issue on Github to suggest the replacement of the term. (Also another, to suggest the Javascript chart be updated to account for promises; I've somewhat less high hopes of that one, given that the author appears to be a disciple of the Haskell language family and to entertain the prejudices so commonly associated therewith, but who knows? It's worth a shot, in any case.)
- coldtea 12y ago>I think by "self-assessment" is meant something more like "self-regard", the whole being taken to mean that PHP programmers have a relatively high opinion of themselves, which is not justified by the code they generate. I read it this way too, and this is what I'm disagreing with. I've seen far more programmers for other languages having a high opinion of themselves than PHP guys, which are more workman-like. The worst offender in this regard would be some Javascript guys (and their n-th rediscovery of the computer programming wheel).
- lucio 12y agoI read "self-assessment" as: "how good I think I'm with the language" and/or "how much I think I know of the language"