PHPClasses 0 - Botanist 1 :-) Paul Scott wrote: > >> You mean we should all be happy that so much choice is available! >> > > I agree with Rob! I am a botanist. I have never been trained in Computer > Science, as far as "industry" is concerned, I am not qualified to turn > on a PC. Fortunately for me, I am also a geek. My PHP experiences > started when running experiments in my wet labs, monitoring seaweed > growth. If PHP did not allow me to get away with writing "newbie" (read > bad) code, I would have given up and just done it the old way that > botanists have been doing it for centuries. > > PHP gave me that freedom to start, and as a result, I now am a > reasonably decent PHP developer, and run a collaborative network in 16 > (and growing) African countries working on a PHP framework that I > designed and wrote. Go figure. > > Choice is that important. If I had started with JDBC or a Java based way > of doing things, this stuff would have never happened. Frameworks are > not only pieces of software, but create communities of like minded > people. They also build skills (and business opportunities) as ours > does. If there were no choice, we would all be VB style drones with no > creativity and no forward movement. > > Please direct flames to file 13. > > --Paul > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/uwc2006/content/mail_disclaimer/index.htm > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
