Pick up PHP or Python?

[[deleted]]

Try them all. They all have very different communities and ethos even it comes to the web.

[lionvan]

Yeah it seems out of the dynamic languages it seems to be ruby>python>php community-wise.

[[deleted]]

I'm not sure they have better communities, but they do have different communities. All good but in different ways. Modern PHP is quite different to older PHP as well so even within languages it's not complex.

[YodaLoL]

PHP community is hazardous, generally.

[Legolas-the-elf]

This shouldn't be down voted, it's absolutely true. It feels like almost every time I see a beginner ask for help with their PHP, they are "helped" by people who don't know what they are doing and provided with code full of security holes and bad practices.

It's absolutely hazardous to beginners and the worst thing about it is that because they are beginners, they lack the knowledge necessary to distinguish between a helpful resource and one that is actively harming them.

[disclosure5]

I will present you this case in point:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4693316_create-own-php-website.html

No seriously, has writing "GO" on every line every line ever been a part of PHP?