Re: Bad rep?

Good observation. I think things are slowly turning in our (php) favor but I see the same thing here in the States. Check out php Architect and other organizations that are trying to raise the php profile. john On Tue, 6 May 2003, Graham Rosser wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 11:24:50 +0100 > From: Graham Rosser <graham.rosser@magicfishtank.com> > To: php-evangelism@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-EVANGELISM] Bad rep? > > I don't know if this has been covered before, but it seems to me that > PHP, despite its widespread use, is very much considered to be a > "Cinderella" of the modern programming languages. > > How do I know this? Well, looking at the job market in the UK, it seems > that most, if not all, the people looking for PHP skills (a small, but > increasing, number) rate the value of those skills at something > considerably less than basic HTML coding. In fact, if you went for a PHP > job, you'd probably get better paid for making the tea... > > Certainly, the disparity between the perceived value of PHP skills and > things like Perl, Java, JSP, etc., is absolutely vast. This applies in > all sizes of business. > > I find this disconcerting because, as a programmer of some 30 years > experience, I've adopted PHP in preference to Perl, which I find > inelegant and quirky, and have used it increasingly in place of Shell > and C, both of which I consider myself to be above average at coding. > > I'd like to think that, in adopting a language for preference, I wasn't > being completely daft, that my reasoning was sound and based on the > qualities that I see in that language. > > Is there someone out there who's taking note of how PHP is perceived? > Am I wrong in my assessments? > What can be done, if I'm right? > > Regards > > Graham > > > -- John Lewis