I'll chime in on this one. I've been job hunting recently, and I can say that while I've seen a lot of people asking for Java experience, I'm not sure I've seen a single posting asking specifically for PHP. There've been a few looking for Drupal, or Wordpress, but no "You must be able to write PHP code to work here". I can also say that the more I work with Java-based programs, the more I want to see Java written into history books as a terrible idea that sadly persisted until nearly 2014. As an example: I need to provide IT support to people using a tool written in Java. It turns out that if you install Java 7, the tool doesn't work at all. If you install Java 6 with the newest updates, it works, but occasionally crashes the entire computer. No, you have to have Java 6 update 22 in order for this software to be reliable. There are other tools I've used that failed completely on minor version switches, and that just plain SHOULDN'T HAPPEN. Yes, there are going to be minor changes when a language upgrades, that's why there are upgrades. But they're usually minor, in a "This didn't work the way it was supposed to, so we fixed it" kind of way. If you were taking advantage of that bug, you get knocked down, but the vast majority of software will keep running. Java doesn't seem to work that way, at least from an IT worker's perspective. Andy McKenzie On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Tedd Sperling <tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi guys: > > A teacher at my college made the statement that JAVA for Web Development > is more popular than PHP. > > Where can I go to prove this right or wrong -- and/or -- what references > do any of you have to support your answer? (sounds like a teacher, huh?) > > Here are my two references: > > http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all > > http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programming_language/ms/y > > But I do not know how accurate they are. > > What say you? > > Cheers, > > > tedd > > _______________ > tedd sperling > tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
