Re: PHP vs JAVA

2013/8/20 Andy McKenzie <amckenzie4@gmail.com> > I'll chime in on this one. > > I've been job hunting recently, and I can say that while I've seen a lot of > people asking for Java experience, I'm not sure I've seen a single posting > asking specifically for PHP. There've been a few looking for Drupal, or > Wordpress, but no "You must be able to write PHP code to work here". > Thats interesting. I am from Berlin and here, when you say you know PHP and a little bit of one, or two frameworks, they will jump onto you :D > > I can also say that the more I work with Java-based programs, the more I > want to see Java written into history books as a terrible idea that sadly > persisted until nearly 2014. As an example: I need to provide IT support > to people using a tool written in Java. It turns out that if you install > Java 7, the tool doesn't work at all. If you install Java 6 with the > newest updates, it works, but occasionally crashes the entire computer. > No, you have to have Java 6 update 22 in order for this software to be > reliable. > > There are other tools I've used that failed completely on minor version > switches, and that just plain SHOULDN'T HAPPEN. Yes, there are going to be > minor changes when a language upgrades, that's why there are upgrades. But > they're usually minor, in a "This didn't work the way it was supposed to, > so we fixed it" kind of way. If you were taking advantage of that bug, you > get knocked down, but the vast majority of software will keep running. > Java doesn't seem to work that way, at least from an IT worker's > perspective. > > Andy McKenzie > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: > > > Hi guys: > > > > A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development > > is more popular than PHP. > > > > Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references > > do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) > > > > Here are my two references: > > > > http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all > > > > > > http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y > > > > But I do not know how accurate they are. > > > > What say you? > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > tedd > > > > _______________ > > tedd sperling > > tedd@sperling.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- github.com/KingCrunch