From: Hadron on
RayLopez99 <raylopez88(a)gmail.com> writes:

> On May 3, 10:05 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...(a)schestowitz.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Learn to program with open source
>>
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>> | Simon Brock guides you to the best open-source
>> | resources to learn programming
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>>
>> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/357550/learn-to-program-with-open-so...
>>
>> Interview with Mercurial's Matt Mackall
>
> Wow. A woefully inadequate interview by a ex-professor who is a
> windbag and who basically makes the case that Microsoft Visual Studio
> is the best IDE to work with, by implication. He doesn't mention VS
> by name but if you know anything about programming that's the logical
> conclusion to draw.
>
> He also makes a good point about PHP. Silverlight using C# as the
> code-behind language is much cleaner.
>
> RL
>
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/357550/learn-to-program-with-open-source/4
>
> PHP is a horrible language that should probably be banned (and I use
> it every day). There are implementations available for most machines,
> but you really need to decide why you'd want to learn PHP. It's a
> language that's highly adapted for creating web pages, but you need
> more than a simple PHP command line interpreter to get the most out of
> it. Which brings me on to the subject of frameworks

PHP is fine if you know what you're doing. Its not worse than say C in
the hands of an idiot - however, structure your code, understand sql
escaping and a few basics and its a very productive language used in
millions of web apps with out issue the world over.