| > But since they are already brainwashed from PHP use, it prevents them from seeing the value of doing thing the proper way, and might see the process as contrived. This is the most dangerous aspect of using PHP. It blocks your learning and understanding. It pulls you down and keep it there. After 10 years of writing PHP I took a look at Python. I was confused for about 10 minutes, until I read about lists and dictionaries and saw they were different things. Who are these people who are just trying to write other languages without looking at the "getting started with data structures" page in the guide, or reading a single book? And why is learning something flexible and easy before learning something more advanced a problem? > So I request every one who is passionate about programming and wants a career in programming to keep away from the php language and community as much as possible. I was writing PHP for a living for a decade. I did a bit of Ruby along the way because it's all the same and who cares. I was then invited to CTO at a tech startup in NY, giving me a visa and moving me from the UK. I replaced their shittily built Rails API with a PHP one which was 3x faster, did 10x more and was actually tested properly. Very handy. Now I work for another company, Ride.com. We're building an API in Rails and it feels just like the one I built in PHP using Laravel. Almost identical. This comapny got me a visa known as "The Alien of Extraordinary Ability" in which my PHP code was used as the basis of my skills. All of this leads me to think: What the fuck are you talking about. 1. Languages rarely matter.
2. PHP is just fine.
3. PHP will not fuck up your career.
4. PHP will not ruin your ability to learn new languages.
5. You are an actual idiot. Stop preaching ignorance and get on with writing software. |