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Posted by Tim Streater on 08/01/07 12:16
In article <1185969567.699509.301980@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> On 31 Jul, 17:09, "M" <nowhere...@twilightzone.net> wrote:
> > I'm okay at designing "brochure" style websites -- essentially every high
> > school kid is capable of that these days.
>
> Likewise PHP
>
> > What would be the next best thing to learn to take it to the next level?
>
> Why? From interest, or because you want a job doing it?
>
> PHP is simple and useful. It's also a ghastly language and will teach
> you evil coding habits that make you almost unusable for any real
> software development afterwards!
Look, I can write FORTRAN in any language :-)
More seriously, why do you have that view?
[snip]
> If you can find hosting for it (not impossible, but harder than PHP),
> Python or even Ruby are far nicer languages than PHP. If you control
> the server yourself (maybe you host over home broadband) then this is
> easy. They (especially Python) also teach far better coding style.
>
> Perl is obsolete. Use Python instead.
What specifically about those languages would you say enforces better
coding style (specially as "better" is somewhat subjective)? I would
agree that PERL might, as it encourages unreadable regexps.
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