Comment Learning to program... aint it a bitch (Score 0) 482
I've seen this countless times... thankfully, a lot of you have mentioned the same things. This is simply a case of a guy that was a mediocre spaghetti code writing PHP Programmer who took 2 years to learn a more formalized, more structured Programming Language (Ruby) and its MVC oriented Framework who got a little lost along the way and decided to return to what he knows, PHP. Luckily, he is taking with him some of the more structured programming experience he gained along the way and will undoubtedly be a better programmer for the effort.
Is it a waste to take 2 years out of your life and learn better coding practices only to throw it away and go back to a less structured programming language? Yes and No... if he learned something along the way and it makes his PHP code better, more structured then it was a great lesson.
I wish him good luck and I hope others out there reading the Slashdot and Digg Article Titles don't go nuts and drop Ruby on Rails for PHP. Read the article and educate yourself.
Is it a waste to take 2 years out of your life and learn better coding practices only to throw it away and go back to a less structured programming language? Yes and No... if he learned something along the way and it makes his PHP code better, more structured then it was a great lesson.
I wish him good luck and I hope others out there reading the Slashdot and Digg Article Titles don't go nuts and drop Ruby on Rails for PHP. Read the article and educate yourself.
