On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 14:43 -0600, Jacob Wright wrote: > I learned to program off of PHP (oscommerce even), but I must say, after the > basics of the language, I had to go to books to learn the real stuff. > Existing code projects didn't cut it anymore. :) I bet most that pick it up > learn just enough to make it do what they want.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Lots of us picked up programming that way, but some of us got serious and dug into the software engineering literature to try to improve our skills. I believe the code that gives PHP a bad name is mostly from people who basically don't improve their skills like that. Which isn't to say that there code doesn't do what it was supposed to, but there is a long-term cost in maintainability and re-usability. -- Walt _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
