On Thursday 26 July 2001 12:02, Gary Stainburn wrote:
Hi all, here's my 2 euros (cough, cough, !!1 sorry - wash my mouth out)
As this thread's started off talking about PHP, how's that for a starter. It'll create some interest with them straight away as the can create web sites which is cool with kids these days. Then move them to perl, which is (and I know Phil will disagree with me here) a proper programming language.
I disagree :) On a serious note, I used to love programming in ARM assembler and BBC BASIC on Risc OS. Then I started having a miserable time writing in C on Windoze. When I found PHP I rediscovered the directness and speed of BBC BASIC. In practice, all programming languages are at best poor, with rough edges, inconsistencies, onnecessary bloat or tortuously non-intuitive syntax.Religiously fervent discussions will never cure anything, so just use what you are comfortable with. I can say, though, that if you like BBC BASIC, you are almost sure to like PHP. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll