Programming/Scripting Resource

John Van Ostrand john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 11 02:16:46 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 20:42 -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I notice that not a single person has suggested PHP, even though (from
> my minimal work to date) it appears to be reasonably flexible and is the
> foundation of many open source CMSs and other LAMP-based web apps.

Then you missed my post.

> Are there objective reasons for not considering PHP as a place to invest
> one's time in entry-level programming, as opposed to Perl, Python, Ruby
> or shell?

If you're web based I think it makes sense. For console apps the
debugging is a little to cumbersome.

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