I am new too here (no more than a week) On Mar 2, 2013 1:37 AM, "Nick Whiting" <prggmr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:32 PM, tamouse mailing lists < > tamouse.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Jim Giner < > jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> What gives you such optimism? I recently saw a list of languages in > > use and > > >> PHP has dropped quite a bit over the last 5 or more years. > > >> Being a relative newbie myself, I'm happy that PHP exists and is so > > readily > > >> available to us hobbyists, etc. Certainly am in favor of your > > optimism, but > > >> curious (hey it's Friday!) about your prediction. > > > > > > Just knowing how the patterns go. It's always the same, and it > > > will likely be the same again. No guarantees, but all it takes is a > > > bit of fostering of the community to return it to a decently-vibrant > > > forum. > > > > > > -- > > > </Daniel P. Brown> > > > Network Infrastructure Manager > > > http://www.php.net/ > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > Things come, things go, ebb and flow. PHP is easy for people to pick > > on, for some good and not so good reasons. It, to me, is still the > > easiest programming language for someone to learn, in *NO* small > > reason because of all the excellent documentation and community > > contributed comments. And places like this list. > > > > I've been working in Rails for the past several months, and although I > > much prefer Ruby as a language, the documentation on libraries, > > extensions, packages, and frameworks is rather lacking. The ruby doc > > website has the space for users to add comments, but there's hardly > > any. > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- > > <http://www.php.net/unsub.php> > > Nickolas Whiting - <http://www.php.net/unsub.php>prggmr.org > > - Remember to write less code that does more faster - > > > > One would think with such a widely used language the mailing list would be > crazy ... then again sites such as SO seem to be taking the internet world > by storm and moving what some would call *old school* forums such as this > into the dark. > > That said ... it never occurred to me until just recently to get into this > forum, in-fact for a number of years I simply didn't know this forum > existed. >
