On 30/01/2013 18:57, Daniel Case wrote:
I quite like PHP, one of the first languages I learnt,
it has it's
quirks and can be written terribly if a programmer doesn't keep on top
of his game. I like to think of PHP as a building block, because of
it's low barrier for entry it's one of the first programming languages
a lot of people learn, and it isn't too bad (I've seen worse) - of
course once you grasp the basic and object oriented concepts from PHP
it mainly echo's across languages, it makes moving onto something like
Python or Perl a lot easier and even into C++/C#
A lot of people just stick at the low barrier and write crappy code,
but some go on and become brilliant programmers who maybe wouldn't
have had the chance without PHP.
+1
Couldn't agree more. The language has its issues (as do all) but I don't
think it deserves such a bad rap. Granted that languages may be better
suited to certain tasks/projects, but that's not to say don't use PHP.
OP - Don't let the haters put you off!
Luke