Re:Life After PHP
by ibudiallo on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:35PM
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So far I'm proficient enough in php to be able to do almost everything I want. Your article is very honest. I never understood the php bashing. If you don't know how to use a type of screw driver use a different kind, at the end of the day the screw will be driven.
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Re:Life After PHP
by jmcdonald-ut on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:58PM
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I became interested in computer science initially with PHP. It had a low barrier to entry and worked rather well for solving the problems at hand. Now that I've worked with C#, Java, C++, and Ruby I can say that PHP still very much exists in my toolkit (and is used), but has become a tool that I rarely reach for. The bashing that PHP gets, it often deserves. However, I've come to accept that all languages have their pros and cons.
PHP is good for what it is. I absolutely love it, and, like I said in the article, owe a majority of my success to it.
PHP is an awful language because it has tons upon tons of quirks... pretty much like Javascript. Sometimes, I am able to find it amusing that most of the web is built on them.