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From: Hadron on 4 May 2010 10:21 RayLopez99 <raylopez88(a)gmail.com> writes: > On May 3, 10:05 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...(a)schestowitz.com> > wrote: > >> Learn to program with open source >> >> ,----[ Quote ] >> | Simon Brock guides you to the best open-source >> | resources to learn programming >> `---- >> >> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/357550/learn-to-program-with-open-so... >> >> Interview with Mercurial's Matt Mackall > > Wow. A woefully inadequate interview by a ex-professor who is a > windbag and who basically makes the case that Microsoft Visual Studio > is the best IDE to work with, by implication. He doesn't mention VS > by name but if you know anything about programming that's the logical > conclusion to draw. > > He also makes a good point about PHP. Silverlight using C# as the > code-behind language is much cleaner. > > RL > > http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/357550/learn-to-program-with-open-source/4 > > PHP is a horrible language that should probably be banned (and I use > it every day). There are implementations available for most machines, > but you really need to decide why you'd want to learn PHP. It's a > language that's highly adapted for creating web pages, but you need > more than a simple PHP command line interpreter to get the most out of > it. Which brings me on to the subject of frameworks PHP is fine if you know what you're doing. Its not worse than say C in the hands of an idiot - however, structure your code, understand sql escaping and a few basics and its a very productive language used in millions of web apps with out issue the world over. |