Re: [PHP] PHP vs JAVA

2013/8/20 Andy McKenzie <[email protected]>

> I'll chime in on this one.
>
> I've been job hunting recently, and I can say that while I've seen a lot of
> people asking for Java experience, I'm not sure I've seen a single posting
> asking specifically for PHP.  There've been a few looking for Drupal, or
> Wordpress, but no "You must be able to write PHP code to work here".
>

Thats interesting. I am from Berlin and here, when you say you know PHP and
a little bit of one, or two frameworks, they will jump onto you :D


>
> I can also say that the more I work with Java-based programs, the more I
> want to see Java written into history books as a terrible idea that sadly
> persisted until nearly 2014.  As an example:  I need to provide IT support
> to people using a tool written in Java.  It turns out that if you install
> Java 7, the tool doesn't work at all.  If you install Java 6 with the
> newest updates, it works, but occasionally crashes the entire computer.
> No, you have to have Java 6 update 22 in order for this software to be
> reliable.
>
> There are other tools I've used that failed completely on minor version
> switches, and that just plain SHOULDN'T HAPPEN.  Yes, there are going to be
> minor changes when a language upgrades, that's why there are upgrades.  But
> they're usually minor, in a "This didn't work the way it was supposed to,
> so we fixed it" kind of way.  If you were taking advantage of that bug, you
> get knocked down, but the vast majority of software will keep running.
> Java doesn't seem to work that way, at least from an IT worker's
> perspective.
>
> Andy McKenzie
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys:
> >
> > A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development
> > is more popular than PHP.
> >
> > Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references
> > do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?)
> >
> > Here are my two references:
> >
> > http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all
> >
> >
> http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y
> >
> > But I do not know how accurate they are.
> >
> > What say you?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > tedd
> >
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> > [email protected]
> >
> >
> >
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