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On Thursday 24 July 2003 6:41 pm, Alan wrote:
> I'm sure some of my facts about PHP are wrong or outdated, and I've
> missed tonnes of pros and cons on both sides, but there you go :) I
> think it might come down to if you're doing this for just web, or want
> to learn something that extends beyond and can be used for scripting and
> sysadminning.
tbh I think it was a pretty fair and honest list. Personally, im not a
programmer by any means, tho slowly learning the ropes through trial and
error :P
I chose PHP because when you pickup a PHP book, to the non-porgrammer its
still quite easy to understand and quite easy to do the simple things. As
another poster said, php.net is a fantastic site and I find it much easier
than, say, the python site, to find the information/reference your looking
for.
When I picked up a perl book, I found it wasnt quite as straight forward. Ppl
have said that perl is a very unreadable language, whereby without script
comments, its very hard to see whats happening. Again, as a non-programmer,
I found python a bit more straight forward to pick up.
<flame disclaimer> I learn by reading websites, books and other ppl's scripts
to find out how things are put together, so readability is obviously an
important part towards my language choices.</flame disclaimer>
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Mark
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