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Posted by Peter Fox on 03/18/07 08:30
Following on from king kikapu's message. . .
>Hit to all folks here,
>
>i recently got interested abiy php, i have a workable knowledge of
>Python and a little bit of Ruby.
>I just want to ask, if php is suitable for generic programming and not
>only for web stuf.
Turn the question around. Does Python do all you want it to do? If so
I'd suggest stick with it and spend time on becoming an ace programmer
rather than a Jack of all trades. (Obviously a working knowledge of PHP
is a good thing as there's a lot of it about.)
In some ways PHP fills the niche that BASIC did 20 years ago. Easy to
use, multi-platform and plenty of get going quickly stuff but lacking
some of the features looked for by more system oriented programmers. It
/can/ be run stand-alone but there will be some sorts of use that it
simply isn't suited for. For example if you wanted to write your own
server I think you'd have a hard time doing that in PHP. I think you'll
find Python is more sophisticated in that respect.
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