How to Pick a Language

Re:How to Pick a Language by jimbokun on Thursday January 22, 2009 @10:39PM (#445884)

I don't know PHP, so didn't comment on it. Would it get its own category, or fit into one of the ones I gave?

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Re:How to Pick a Language by kaens on Friday January 23, 2009 @11:08PM (#447729)

Php is, in my opinion, a "templating" language (yes, I know it's not just a templating language). Closer to "scripting" than the other categories.

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Re:How to Pick a Language by russell on Friday January 23, 2009 @02:58PM (#446944)

Probably a new category, templating languages, along with things like jsp, struts, etc. Python, Ruby, Perl are really general purpose languages.

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Re:How to Pick a Language by Nwallins on Thursday January 22, 2009 @11:52PM (#445957)

The "scripting" category with Perl, Python, and Ruby.

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Re:How to Pick a Language by maxwell on Friday January 23, 2009 @01:42AM (#446073)

I'd put PHP in a category with JavaScript, since they resemble p/py/r but were designed for web programming rather than scripting.

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Re:How to Pick a Language by catch23 on Friday January 23, 2009 @04:45AM (#446208)

I guess that sort of works... but php is still serverside. Anyone doing web dev must learn javascript, but not necessarily php. Javascript would probably be competing with actionscript or any other client-side plugin stuff.

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