Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

7 Reasons He Switched Back to PHP

I didn’t abandon the rewrite IDEA, though. I just asked myself one important question:
“Is there anything Rails can do, that PHP CAN’T do?”
The answer is no.

Derek Silvers writes a good article with 7 good reasons as to why he switched back to PHP after 2 years of coding Ruby on Rails.

I've always liked the idea of learning Rails, [is it just me or has Rails been portrayed as a sexy/trendy language?] but I've never started because PHP has always been good enough for my own projects. I'm glad I didn't waste 2 years learning another language just to find that out!

My favourite reason from the article:

7 - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE LIKE GIRLFRIENDS: THE NEW ONE IS BETTER BECAUSE YOU ARE BETTER

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