PHP and is it a viable language to learn
Hi everyone
I started dabbling with programming (Perl/Python) in windows. I have now moved to slackware 9.0 and saw a thread about how to setup Apache+MySQL+PHP so I did it. I was just wondering is it a viable language in the workforce. I read the PHP-HOWTO, but the guy who wrote that seems to be heavily biased towards it and against PErl/Python. I know some uses of PHP (my g/f's uncle owns a computer buisness making frontends for databases and e-commerce stuff with PHP/VB/C#) what else is it used for? And is it actually faster than java like the author of the HOWTO says (3.7 times he said I think). Is it a good base for stepping up to other languages?
Thanks,
Jacob
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