Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] good article

[Anacreo <an...@gm...>]

Jason,
  Thanks for sharing that article.  I'd have to say that after playing with
Ruby on Rails and being very excited about it, I dropped it like a dead
fish.  I kind of agree with the author.  I don't think PHP is a language
that deserves to be dropped yet.  I do think it has enough power to
accomplish almost any task you throw at it, and for the good programmers out
there you can get very clean and maintainable code.  The comments on the
site are really silly and disregard business realities for simple bias.
I've talked to so many ex-Ruby on Rails users and they've all dropped it for
one reason or another and they are usually reasons I didn't even think of.

  Any new programming language be it Perl, Java, or PHP should smack with,
"Geez I couldn't even do this before".  I dropped Perl as soon as I started
with PHP because it was better in so many respects as a language.  And when
I started coding in Java I thought wow maybe I should have started out as a
C programmer so I could be a Java programmer.  And that's another thing, I
never got into C because there weren't real world business problems that I
couldn't accomplish in Perl (there still aren't).

  I'm not saying Ruby on Rails isn't a good skill but there were quite a few
posts in the article who remind me why I'm a UNIX vs a Windows person.  I
have the skills already to accomplish in UNIX because it's taught me to
understand how everything works underneath.  Ruby on Rails is Windows, PHP
is UNIX.  Both get the job done one is completely in your control.

Alec

On 9/30/07, Jason Rexilius <ja...@ho...> wrote:
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> Mostly common sense, particularly the "PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE LIKE
> GIRLFRIENDS: THE NEW ONE IS BETTER BECAUSE *YOU* ARE BETTER"
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> http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html
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