Re: Re[2]: [PHP-EVANGELISM] Question on business want for PHP

I wholeheartedly agree. With prior experiance in Perl, C, and shell scripts, 
PHP was a breeze. I had only to look up a few functions. The problem is 
though that because of the current lack of PHP jobs, young programmers have 
learned MS products in order to get a [paying] job. It isn't that few are 
capable of learning PHP (though some are afraid of not dragging & dropping), 
it's just that many don't.


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From: Lothar Scholz <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re[2]: [PHP-EVANGELISM] Question on business want for PHP
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:39:06 +0200
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Hello lackluster,

ll> Getting back to the point, there is a shortage (at least around DC, USA) 
of
ll> PHP developers. My management is afraid if we use PHP and I leave, 
there'll
ll> be no one to fill my shoes (size 9 1/2). But they see people with .NET
ll> experiance all over the place (brown-nosed youngsters that don't know 
what's
ll> going on behind the scenes, they drag, drop, and pray).

Unbelieveable. My old professor told me that a good educated
programmer should never need more then 1 week to learn a language and
1 week to learn the essentials of the library.

And he is right, with one exception a good programmer will never need
so long for PHP. I learned it in a weekend




Best regards,
  Lothar                            mailto:[email protected]



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