Seb,
I think the answer, tho it may not be a great one, is to become a
jackofalltrades-verygoodatallofthem kind of person if you truly want to
make yourself stand out...
Whether you love php or not, you have to respect the power it gives you
and the ease with which you can develop with it. However, it isn't the
end all language. No one would ever make that claim. If you truly want
to become a good programmer, then you should be able to look at a
problem, understand what you need, and then pick a language from your
arsenal. You could be Rasmus, but if your boss will not accept PHP, and
you don't know anything else, you're stuck...
I know what you mean about being good at one, or know many. I myself
have taken the latter approach. My Java skills aren't nearly as good as
a full time java programmer, but then again, I can look at
C++/Java/Perl/PHP code,understand it, and work with it...the fulltime
mono-language coder may not know the first thing about the last two.
So, ideally, know everything from C to Ruby well...but until then, get
good at what you can, and always try to learn more.
My $.02,
Jack
-----Original Message-----
From: Seb Frost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:29 PM
To: John Meyer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?
Ah ha, but am I better off becoming a PHP guru or a
jackofalltrades-notverygoodatanyofthem kind of person ;-)
Well I've never used scripting of any sort before PHP, just c++ really.
I'll stick to php i guess (for now).
- seb
-----Original Message-----
From: John Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23 August 2001 02:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Any point in learning ASP/JSP etc?
At 01:10 AM 8/23/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Or is PHP the be-all and end all?
>
>I know its strong points, but what are the WEAK points of PHP?
>
>- seb
PHP isn't default on Microsoft systems
You have to learn a new language for PHP: ASP is basically either
VBScript
or JScript around some objects.
To answer the question in your subject line, I think that if you were
interested in programming, you should want to learn any new technology
that
you could. Plus, the more languages, the more employable, I would
think.
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