Re: Hello

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Alan Feuerbacher <alanf00@comcast.net> wrote: > On 8/28/2017 9:24 AM, Larry Martell wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Alan Feuerbacher <alanf00@comcast.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I subscribed to this list a few days ago. I thought there would be a lot >>> of >>> traffic, but I've seen none. Is this list active? >> >> >> All the cool kids are using django and python. For the unfortunates >> who still have to use PHP (like me) most questions are going to stack >> overflow. > > > Howdy, > > I haven't heard of django, but I know a smattering of python. I'm not very > experienced with any language besides C and a couple of internal-only > industrial languages I had to use when I was still working. Now I'm > expanding my Linux skills. > > I take it PHP is somewhat outdated. Why? > > I wanted to learn PHP for a specific purpose: extracting specific data from > an existing XML page. After doing some reading of books and on the Net, I > thought that PHP would do the trick. It does, but it's been a struggle. > > I know that PHP is mainly for Web applications, but I'm not doing any of > that. I am not saying there isn't any, but I personally do not know of any new websites being built with PHP. Any new sites that I know of are being done with django or flask. But there are a lot of existing PHP sites out there, enough to keep us all very busy.