Trying to decide between PHP and Python

[Tomasz Rola]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Dan M wrote:

> As to choice between Python and PHP, I would say learn anything but PHP. 
> Even Perl has fewer tentacles than PHP.

However, the quality of code depends heavily on who writes it. My 
impression is that more folks of "I did it and it works so it is good, 
right?" attitude can be found among Perl/PHP crowd (compared to Python or 
Ruby or...). The reason is probably the "easyness" of those languages 
(mostly because of tons of readymade code on the net) which - wrongly - 
suggests they are already "there", no need to learn anymore.

But I find, from time to time, nice code written in, say, PHP and from 
this I know it is possible to use it without screwing up. I guess it 
requires just some learning, some books (leaning towards theory rather 
than teaching dummies whatever in 2 and 1/10 days) and about five years 
(or maybe ten, or maybe only two) - after that, you can learn PHP and Perl 
if you really want to :-).

I guess stackoverflow can give some pointers about it.

Myself, I see neither of the two as promising for me, so I deflect them.

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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