The Major drawback I and my company has seen is this: When you acquire a
client that has heard a buzzword like "JSP" or "ASP" or "Oracle" and
they get that stuck in their head..if you can't redirect them you lose
their business. Since the market is tough right now, a company will take
what they can get. Even if that means forcing their PHPers to do a
project in VB or ASP simply because the client thinks that's what they
want. You have to be truly diversified as a programmer these days. 
Especially when your company gets clients where a project has been
started by someone else but they want you to finish it. Or to fix it. 
If you are lucky enough to get to have say in what a project will be
done in, by all means PHP all the way! But if you aren't, and your
client assumes anything that is free isn't stable (argh) then you are
stuck accomodating.  
 
Last thing you wanted to know is "Learn em all!" ? HUH?
 
 
Angie Tollerson
Alliance Technologies Web Programmer
(515) 245-7628
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

>>> Mihail Bota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/16/02 01:22PM >>>
Nevertheless, there are two interesting points:

1. Many job ads are emphasizing the knowledge of specific
scripting/programming languages, as if the person should have unique
capabilities, as Rasmus pointed out. If the person who is applying for
a
job did not
work with a specific language or he/she does not have enough
experience,
his/her application may go to the trash bin immediately.

2. Are there some serious statements, documents, analyses, that show
that
PHP might be the new "Big" thing, or this is just like a rumour?

Rasmus, just wondering, any species requirements from that moneky to
learn
PHP? It would be interesting to see a gorrila and a lemur coding in
PHP, side by side :)
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> They are, but personally when I hire a "PHP" programmer I don't look
for
> PHP skills.  I look for other skills that show that the person is
bright.
> I can teach a moderately intelligent monkey to use PHP.
>
> I think most people look at things too much from a tool perspective. 
You
> don't hire a newspaper writer because his resume says he knows how
to
> type.  You look at what he has written.  He may not be able to type
at
> all.
>
> -Rasmus
>
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, RS Herhuth wrote:
>
> >
> > I hear from a lot of different sources that PHP is the next "Big"
thing.  I
> > have been using PHP myself for some pretty serious web application
> > development for my current job for well over a year now.  But my
question is
> > in searching for potential PHP related employment there isn't much
of
> > anything out there. So who is using PHP and why aren't they
hiring?
> >
> > R
> >
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