[Tutor] newbie Questions

[Jordan]

I would just like to add that I am a web developer and I left PHP for
Python. I left PHP because it was not as powerful server side (Cron Jobs
and Such) and I wanted to possibly create desktop applications, more
recently Android Apps via SL4A and IPhone Apps via pyjamas. PHP is a
limited language although there have been attempts at making it work for
desktop apps,it just was not designed as a generally use language like
Python. But the choice is yours and the path for Python in web
development may be a little more trickier than PHP; but when you want to
do more than web development you will realize Python is the way to go.
Also just one more note Python code is so much easier to read than PHP,
and the language as a whole is much more consistent, thanks PEP 8.

On 07/16/2012 03:54 PM, Wayne Werner wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Walter Prins wrote:
>
>> Hi again Matthew,
>>
>> I forgot to include the following link which I originally thought to
>> include, which is one guy's set of (IMHO very cogent) criticisms
>> against PHP as programming language:  http://is.gd/z1POXC  Hopefully
>> it gives you something else to think about regarding the PHP vs Python
>> question apart from just whether doing websites in it is "easy".
>>
>
> I read that article recently and recommend it as well. I used to
> think that PHP was just fine... but since reading that article (and
> several related ones), I've since revised my opinion.
>
> I would now tell someone to learn any language besides php.
>
> -Wayne
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