Posted by Toby A Inkster on 05/19/07 09:14

shotokan99 wrote:

> actually im new to php. so im reading if how far it goes and if it
> will keep going, considering the advent of .net, ajax, c#,j2ee...etc.
> if i stay faithfull to php, will there always be a place in web php?

In 40-50 years or so, it's unlikely that *any* of them will still be
commonly used.

How many languages from the 1950s and 1960s are still in use? Take a look
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages -- how
many of those names do you even recognise? How many are still in common
use? I'd say just two from each decade: FORTRAN, LISP, BASIC and LOGO.

The languages you mention (C#, Java, Javascript and PHP) were all
developed in the last 15 years.

In 50 years time, a handful of today's programming languages will probably
still be in common use, but it's unlikely to be the ones we expect. Don't
expect learning a single language to set you up for a life of programming
employment. You've got to keep learning new languages and techniques.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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