On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Jay Blanchard wrote: > I'd be curious as to how many cam to PHP from a programming background? > Likewise, how many start with PHP and go on to other languages? And what > those languages are either direction?
I started serious coding in perl. When I found PHP, I realized I was killing myself trying to do CGI with perl, and quickly migrated. That transition was easy, and my life got better. After a couple of years coding in PHP I made a foray into Python. I learned OOP with Python and was able to work that knowledge into my PHP programming easily. Using OO with PHP simplified a lot of problems I'd had trying to do more complex tasks with a procedural/functional approach. I still use perl to whip up a sysadmin script here and there, but after using Python I began to regard perl as a syntactic mess. -- Kelly Hallman // Ultrafancy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
