On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> layout with some logic. For many of those, PHP is / was the first
> programming language they learned.
I wonder if that's good or bad thing? :)
> There are also a number of people for whom the above is not enough.
> They strive for the possibilities the Java platform offers, without
> being forced to develop in a closed-source environment. As I said
> before, I really like Java as a language, but don't want to use the
> Java platform for technical and non-technical reasons.
I'm not that familiar with Java..so it would be nice to hear
what Java offers that PHP doesn't?
> If it were not for the "Community Experience" I get working with / on
> PHP and the fact that I don't do programming for a living (yet), I
> think I would've abandoned PHP a time ago.
That "Community Experience" doesn't really exist anymore, IMHO.
Or is it just because the IT bubble burst? :)
> Like Shane, I believe that there's no contradiction in keeping PHP
> as easy to use as it has been since its conception, while also
> addressing the needs of the more advanced PHP developers.
So what really ARE the needs of more advanced developers?
(I'm starting to sound like a broken record now :)
--Jani
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