Re: Re[2]: [PHP-EVANGELISM] Question on business want for PHP

I wholeheartedly agree. With prior experiance in Perl, C, and shell scripts, PHP was a breeze. I had only to look up a few functions. The problem is though that because of the current lack of PHP jobs, young programmers have learned MS products in order to get a [paying] job. It isn't that few are capable of learning PHP (though some are afraid of not dragging & dropping), it's just that many don't. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Lothar Scholz <llothar@web.de> Reply-To: Lothar Scholz <llothar@web.de> To: "lackluster lackluster" <xlacklusterx@hotmail.com> CC: jvilla@isdesigndev.com, php-evangelism@lists.php.net Subject: Re[2]: [PHP-EVANGELISM] Question on business want for PHP Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:39:06 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from pb1.pair.com ([216.92.131.4]) by mc4-f4.law16.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:02:34 -0700 Received: (qmail 4583 invoked by uid 1010); 21 Jul 2003 00:02:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 56537 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2003 22:28:28 -0000 X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+Q1OJDRSDidP Mailing-List: contact php-evangelism-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: <mailto:php-evangelism-help@lists.php.net> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:php-evangelism-unsubscribe@lists.php.net> list-post: <mailto:php-evangelism@lists.php.net> Delivered-To: mailing list php-evangelism@lists.php.net Delivered-To: moderator for php-evangelism@lists.php.net X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Educational Organization: Scriptolutions X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1181848937.20030720223906@web.de> In-reply-To: <BAY2-F73OS8vu6N58f8000034d0@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-F73OS8vu6N58f8000034d0@hotmail.com> Sender: llothar@web.de Return-Path: php-evangelism-return-259-xlacklusterx=hotmail.com@lists.php.net X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jul 2003 00:02:35.0100 (UTC) FILETIME=[63A561C0:01C34F1B] Hello lackluster, ll> Getting back to the point, there is a shortage (at least around DC, USA) of ll> PHP developers. My management is afraid if we use PHP and I leave, there'll ll> be no one to fill my shoes (size 9 1/2). But they see people with .NET ll> experiance all over the place (brown-nosed youngsters that don't know what's ll> going on behind the scenes, they drag, drop, and pray). Unbelieveable. My old professor told me that a good educated programmer should never need more then 1 week to learn a language and 1 week to learn the essentials of the library. And he is right, with one exception a good programmer will never need so long for PHP. I learned it in a weekend Best regards,

 Lothar                            mailto:llothar@web.de

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