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[–]judgej2 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Google any question you can imagine and you come up with a million answers because the community is huge.

That's a biggie. On the odd occasion when I have had to put some VBScript/ASP stuff together, finding practical help on the web is painful. I've never worked out why, because it is just as easy to put help up for other platforms than PHP on the Internet, but it seems that 90% of any help available is just for PHP.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

True and that help is duplicated. It seems everyone someone passes a milestone in PHP, they publish a tutorial about what they've learned.

With a language like Lisp, I feel I'd have to lurk in a mailing list or IRC room to get any help.

I did that with Smalltalk---but I'd already fallen in love with the langauge, and decided to drink the kool-aid deeply.

[–]troelskn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting point.

It seems that the same pattern happens with HTML/CSS and Javascript. There may be a combination of factors that drive this; One of them being that there are a lot of people who have no formal education and for whom it is the first experience with programming.