Re: [PHP] Hello

On 8/28/2017 9:24 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Alan Feuerbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I subscribed to this list a few days ago. I thought there would be a lot of
>> traffic, but I've seen none. Is this list active?
> 
> All the cool kids are using django and python. For the unfortunates
> who still have to use PHP (like me) most questions are going to stack
> overflow.

Howdy,

I haven't heard of django, but I know a smattering of python. I'm not 
very experienced with any language besides C and a couple of 
internal-only industrial languages I had to use when I was still 
working. Now I'm expanding my Linux skills.

I take it PHP is somewhat outdated. Why?

I wanted to learn PHP for a specific purpose: extracting specific data 
from an existing XML page. After doing some reading of books and on the 
Net, I thought that PHP would do the trick. It does, but it's been a 
struggle.

I know that PHP is mainly for Web applications, but I'm not doing any of 
that.

Alan