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Posted by SAZ on 08/02/07 16:03
In article <1185969567.699509.301980@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
dingbat@codesmiths.com says...
> On 31 Jul, 17:09, "M" <nowhere...@twilightzone.net> wrote:
> 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!
>
> More to the point, every teenager and their dog is writing (bad) PHP
> these days and there are no good jobs in it. You can certainly get
> such a job, but it's a minimum wage sort of role and you're thrown
> into a vast pit of undistinguished crappy-coders. There's no reward to
> being any better than this, you just won't get recognised for it.
>
> If you _are_ a good PHP coder who knows enough to do good work with
> it, then you're in a tiny minority. You're also likely to have to go
> and work as your own bespoke complete-service web shop (not even
> contract or freelance), because it's the only way to distinguish
> yourself from the muppets.
>
What? PHP is a minimum wage job? A halfway decent PHP coder can
command $40/hour or more as a freelancer. I love PHP jobs. They are
typically 20 - 30 hour projects and I get $60/hour with no problem.
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