On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Levi Pearson <levipear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My issue is that we tend to get emotionally attached to technologies > like PHP that we had success with in the past. I agree, the zealous nature of some people and their choice of language is a bad thing. They aren't moving on with the technology. We probably all have a pet language (e.g. Haskell, a 20+ years old) that we may get zealous about defending at times. I think there are far fewer zealots than there are people who just use a language for some other reason. The pro and con zealots tend to be more outspoken, especially on the internet, but they don't represent the reason PHP is still trying to adapt to the modern world. I don't do most of my daily programming in PHP. I have several existing PHP applications I maintain though. Many of them are 10+ years old. It would take several man-years to switch to another language. The people who pay for me to program don't want to spend the time or money doing that when the product works just fine how it is. The occasional enhancement or security fix is cheap to do but many of them require PHP to keep up with technology. I'm guessing there are far more many people who fit in this camp, than do in the zealot camp. For that, I'm glad that Rasmus is still riding the gravy-train and someone is paying him to keep working on his pet project. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
