Ask HN: Should I learn PHP in 2017?

Re:Ask HN: Should I learn PHP in 2017? by informatimago on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:45AM (#13114494)

If you have a job asking you to write or maintain PHP software, then you should indeed learn it enough to do a good job.

But otherwise, IMO, your time would be better used learning something else, or another programming language. For example, learning Common Lisp (or scheme), or Haskell, or Prolog, etc, would let you learn new concepts and make you a better PHP programmer in the end, because learning those languages would make you a better programmer in general.

http://www.dmi.unict.it/~barba/PROG-LANG/PROGRAMMI-TESTI/REA...

PHP is in the second little pink box on the right "Sequential object-oriented programming". There are a lot of other boxes to learn!

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Re:Ask HN: Should I learn PHP in 2017? by swah on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @08:44AM (#13122430)

Thanks, I tried most of those languages at some point in time... its more about the market.

(Haskell, Javascript, Ocaml, Lua, Python, Common Lisp, Clojure, Emacs Lisp, Golang, Erlang, Python, Ruby, Java...)

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