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Subject: Re: Programming language
From: Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 23:52:44 -0700

PHP is weird, most programmers I run into seem to kind of look down their nose at it. But at the same time some huge portion of the web (like 75%-80%!) runs on PHP. I must not be running into the programmers who are using it!

https://haydenjames.io/80-percent-web-powered-by-php/

I can only guess that there are security problems, and the fact that a lot of programmers don't like it. I'd guess that if you did feel like learning PHP, it wouldn't be the worst choice, only because there is so much of it.

But you can't go wrong with Python, and I second the great book "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python." That book presents basic programming concepts in a way that is better than most other programming info I've ever read, and I'm a fairly experienced programmer, self-taught mainly by books. I wish a lot more books were like that. It doesn't cover the best practices that you would need to know as a professional programmer, but you can pick that up elsewhere.

One more thing, Stanford just released a "learn to program" site that could be useful:
https://compedu.stanford.edu/codeinplace/announcement/

Mark Giffin
Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.
http://markgiffin.com/


On 3/30/2020 11:33 PM, Helen OBoyle wrote:

Hi Tony,

At the ones I'm aware of, which I don't feel at liberty to name, it's due
to security issues.

If being open source was the deal-killer, those same orgs wouldn't be fine
with Python, Perl, gcc, etc.

Kind regards,

Helen.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 5:12 PM Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:

Iâd like to hear more about why PHP is not allowed in some companies. Iâm
just curious, since it seems so many of the popular CMS products are
written using PHP or a PHP framework. Is it due to inherent security
issues, or the fact that PHP is predominantly open source, and many
companies arenât so fond of things that they canât control?

That said, a lot of DevOps and docs-as-code frameworks lean toward Python,
so you can count another vote for Python.

-Tony

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 14:17 Helen OBoyle <hoboyle -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

Another "language" that's NOT a good choice is php; it's actually not
allowed to be used in
some companies.
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References:
Programming language: From: John Posada
RE: Programming language: From: Rick Quatro
Re: Programming language: From: John G
Re: Programming language: From: Tony Chung
Re: Programming language: From: Helen OBoyle

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