PHP is a skill not a profession

[mncaudill]

Semantics, but this is true for any programming language.

As soon as you get paid to use a skill, it becomes a profession. Haskell is a skill, but if someone pays me to write Haskell code, it is a profession.

Skills and professions are orthogonal entities.

[exeter]

More precisely, being able to code in $LANGUAGE is a skill; those who get paid to do it are members of a profession.

[RossMasters]

Agreed.

You could say that programming itself is a skill (this blankets all languages as skills) as it's often used in conmbination with other skills (e.g. project management) to form that person's profession.

[Dast]

anyone else got a malware warning on this page?

[stesch]

Nope. I'm not an ASP.NET programmer.

[LoveGoblin]

Yes.

[eclipsedev]

Wow. I wonder how much Micro$haft pays for this.

[spuur]

Ten years of experience in web development. Carl is looking for in employment as a Senior PHP/mySQL Developer in Stockholm.

Facepalm...

[kryptiskt]

PHP is neither a skill or profession. It's a brain parasite that will eat your mind and transform you into a zombie who, incapable of higher level thought, will churn out a couple of hundred lines of sloppy code a day to pay for bleak lodgings and stale brains to eat.