RE: [PHP] php vs cold fusion

You're right Rasmus, Logically it is so, but when you invest in an employee you want him to know it already, and not blame you for not training him enough. A C programmer for my team is not as useful as a college student who has the words "light knowledge of PHP" in his resume. That how it works for my team at least. Maxim Maletsky. -----Original Message----- From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@linuxcare.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:19 AM To: Joe Stump Cc: Kulkarni, Vikram; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] php vs cold fusion Don't be too worried about finding programmers with PHP experience. If you can find programmers with C or Perl experience you don't need to look any further. PHP is not a new a revolutionary scripting language that needs PHP-specific experience. -Rasmus On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Joe Stump wrote: > One note about "programming" in CFM - how many people do you know that can > hardcode CFM by hand? No one! You need the friggin' editor to use it - if you > call that knowledge then I'll take PHP :O) > > But your argument has substance - I know that I work with a couple of quality > ubergeeks who can code PHP like no other - and I thank my lucky stars everyday! > > > --Joe > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:53:47PM -0500, Kulkarni, Vikram wrote: > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > If PHP isn't already, I feel it will soon be a superior tool for server side > > coding than many other languages including CFM. However, CFM has a wide > > support base via a commerical organization. PHP is getting this too, but > > one real problem with PHP is the lack of PHP knowledgable programmers. I > > can feel the PHP ranks growing and once the "boss-man" sees a reasonable > > size supply of people to work on his storehouse of internal PHP code, he may > > adopt it outright. Until then who can blame folks for "buying in" to > > commercial solutions that have a decent supply of talent to back it up. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > It is the old chicken-and-egg problem. Programmers aren't getting trained > > in PHP because there are no jobs; and there are no jobs..... > > > > I searched dice.com's New York site for PHP and I found 48 refererences. I > > searched for Cold Fusion and I found 196 references. Go figure. > > > > Vikram Kulkarni > > > > > > **************************************************************************** * > > This message may contain privileged and confidential information. If you > > think, for any reason, that this message may have been addressed to you in > > error, you must not disseminate or copy this message, or use its content > > as the basis for taking any action. Further, we would ask you to notify > > us immediately by return e-mail, telephone or facsimile. > > **************************************************************************** * > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ============================================================================ ==== > = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org = > ============================================================================ ==== > "Real programmers don't comment their code. > It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net