I’m Sticking with PHP

Thanks to an article by Derek Sivers, I’m sticking with PHP. I’ve dabbled with Ruby on Rails, but in the end, I just can’t be bothered learning a whole new language just because it’s cool and new.

Here’s my favourite quote from the article:

#7 - PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE LIKE GIRLFRIENDS: THE NEW ONE IS BETTER BECAUSE *YOU* ARE BETTER

Rails was an amazing teacher. I loved it’s “do exactly as I say” paint-by-numbers framework that taught me some great guidelines.

I love Ruby for making me really understand OOP. God, Ruby is so beautiful. I love you, Ruby.

But the main reason that any programmer learning any new language thinks the new language is SO much better than the old one is because he’s a better programmer now! You look back at your old ugly PHP code, compared to your new beautiful Ruby code, and think, “God that PHP is ugly!” But don’t forget you wrote that PHP years ago and are unfairly discriminating against it now.

It’s not the language (entirely). It’s you, dude. You’re better now. Give yourself some credit.

Hat tip to Marc Canter for pointing me at this article midway through his (somewhat random) post!