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Please give me some examples!
Learn a functional language like Elixir. That’ll prove both useful and mind expanding!
Using Perl for sysadmin work and living life in Regex for a while has its perks too. ;)
Learn PHP the Right Way
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Re: Learn PHP the Right Way
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Anecdotal at best, but that is essentially the way I learned English, and definitely the reason I think I don't have a distracting accent when talking in English.
Edited to specify I'm talking about programming languages...
I'd say it depends:
- Depends on stage of study - Depends on type of concept - Depends on how the student learns the most effectively.
There's only one way I think your statement is true, and that's if you add "solely".
Re: Learn PHP the Right Way
#73It's disappointing that PHP still gets hate in 2024. PHP of 2024 isn't the PHP of 2004. As someone with a bunch of experience in Java, C, C++, Python, PHP, Hack, Javascript and a handful of others, PHP is (IMHO) almost a perfect language for serving HTTP requests because of these characteristics: 1. Essentially an HTML document is a valid PHP program. This is an excellent starting point for beginners; 2. PHP has a st…
IMHO most of hate is just because it is fashionable to hate some languages including PHP and Perl. But there is some criticism which looks valid to me e. g. [1] Regarding embedded into HTML PHP code - it's a easy for beginners but in a large application it leads to hard to maintain mix of app logic and presentation - AFAIK this feature is rarely used outside toy project for many years. [1] https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04…
Embedding PHP in HTML is often treated as a kind of dirty legacy we don’t talk about, even though is actually an amazing prototyping feature. As long as you use it like you would use Jupyter notebooks, you’re golden.