On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:16:06 -0000, you wrote: >What do you say to someone who says: > >"PHP is just a kiddie language"? > >(Source: http://www.dhtmlcentral.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19373) > >PHP is currently my strongest development language and it annoys me that it >is a much less bankable skillset than .NET and Java. How long do you think >it's going to take to get respect? Will it ever happen?
PHP is a language designed for a limited problem domain (HTML processing), with a gentle learning curve and missing a lot of modern syntax. These can be strengths as well as weaknesses, of course - it all depends on the problem you're trying to solve. However, these attributes do make it a "kiddie language" (and I'm not using that in an especially pejorative sense) when compared to languages with other design goals. We're just fortunate that most web problems are kiddie problems, too. (It's foolish to get into blind religious wars over languages, so I won't take this any further, but it's also foolish to be wilfully ignorant of the strengths and weaknesses of the tools you use.) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
