Feb 9: PHP: Irrelevant Again
So I was pointed to the Google AI Challenge being put on by the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club by a friend of mine. It's so funny to see the paradox of PHP so starkly portrayed. Take a look at the starter packages that are provided for the challenge, you will notice a couple of things:
1) PHP is not to be found on there at all, even though its chief rivals Ruby and Python are. In fact, Python was one of the first ones available.
2) The page itself is written using PHP to drive the content, presumably by some one-off page action rather than a framework implementation (the HTML is too packed hehe)
This sums up the general feeling the world has towards PHP: it's fine for throwing together a quick web page, but who would use it to actually do any programming with? I am not complaining mind you; even though I have been in the PHP game a long time, I love Python and wish I could get more work doing it!
1) PHP is not to be found on there at all, even though its chief rivals Ruby and Python are. In fact, Python was one of the first ones available.
2) The page itself is written using PHP to drive the content, presumably by some one-off page action rather than a framework implementation (the HTML is too packed hehe)
This sums up the general feeling the world has towards PHP: it's fine for throwing together a quick web page, but who would use it to actually do any programming with? I am not complaining mind you; even though I have been in the PHP game a long time, I love Python and wish I could get more work doing it!
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