This article is one year old. Accidently I did not post it in the past. So here we go with an updated version.
The Right Tool offers a nice survey, asking to rank the programming languages you select, in a suitable order related to a statement (2705 9383 programmers did it yet). Even though, I think I have experience with several languages, I was interested in comparing my “two Big Ones” (PHP and Python). And these are the results of the survey:
Note: For PHP “ranked highly” number 3 stands for “The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread” and “ranked low” number 3 voted to number 1. For Python “ranked highly” number 2 states “This language would be good for teaching children to write software” and “ranked low” number 3 says “This language has an annoying syntax” today… oder checkout PHP and python
The PHP community is not that self esteemed like the Python community. Even though many programmers rank Python as an “unusual bad language for beginners” language, Python is listed as one of the “best languages for beginners”. On the other hand, we have what I love about python and is listed as number 1 number 5 in comparison to other languages:
Note: Cobol is to the left and Scheme to the right today.
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