[UPHPU] PHP 4 EOL Announcement

[Jacob Wright]

> The issue is that a large number of "PHP developers" never had any clue
> about
> how to program before they started playing with web pages.  The next step
> was
> someone telling them, "Oh, PHP is really easy to use and learn; you should
> use that to add the current date to your home age, or to add a simple
> login
> wrapper/profile system for users."  The next thing you know, it seems like
> 90% + of people writting code in PHP never learned how to program.  Ug.


I learned to program off of PHP (oscommerce even), but I must say, after the
basics of the language, I had to go to books to learn the real stuff.
Existing code projects didn't cut it anymore. :)  I bet most that pick it up
learn just enough to make it do what they want.

Jacob