Subj : is PHP a neccessary evil?
To   : All
From : LaRRy LaGoMoRpH
Date : Sun Oct 12 2014 08:37 pm

I don't like php - but it seems to be all over the place.  It seems like if you
want to do web development work, they want you to know php.

But in a perfect world, is PHP neccessary or even ideal to do the things it's
used for moving forward?  Maybe it is, I don't know.

It seems very database oriented - like you better know SQL if you know PHP or
else you're kinda missing something.  

Then there's all the darn ?'s and $'s all over the place that don't make things
any easier to read.  Sure those things are nifty when it's jquery tacking on
javascript, but as a core element of the language seem to make it more
difficult to read.   

There's tons of crap that runs on PHP, but is any of it really cool in any way?
I want to see something cool that came from php so I can be like, oh wow, you
can do that with PHP - i want to do that.  

I see no other PhP messages here, so I don't know if there's anyone else out
there who has an opinion on php.  I obviously haven't gotten too intimate with
it but I did pass the codeacademy course in a couple hours, I don't think I
learned much php specific stuff though.

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