Re:When security goes right
by thaumaturgy on Thursday December 25, 2014 @11:37PM
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I'm a PHP programmer too. I've also been a C, C++, Pascal, WFL, COBOL74, 68k assembly, etc. etc. etc. programmer for the last 30ish years (and paid off and on for it for almost 20 now, by all kinds of different places). I also founded a local developer group, and I certainly wasn't the least knowledgeable guy there when it comes to application security.
I get that you didn't intend it as an insult, and you probably didn't have people like me in mind when you made that comment. However, the relatively recent "PHP programmers are stupid" thing has so turned me off to any kind of programming discussion that I now habitually avoid any discussion of programming at all -- for the first time in all my years as a programmer.
Re:When security goes right
by mikegioia on Thursday December 25, 2014 @11:52PM
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Thank you! I just sent a long email to the HN moderators about this very issue. This pervasive anti-PHP mentality is rampant and actively discourages me (and other PHP devs) from contributing.
I get that you didn't intend it as an insult, and you probably didn't have people like me in mind when you made that comment. However, the relatively recent "PHP programmers are stupid" thing has so turned me off to any kind of programming discussion that I now habitually avoid any discussion of programming at all -- for the first time in all my years as a programmer.