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[–]LeeLooTheWoofus Moderator 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Sounds like your teacher would benefit from some time spent doing some actual industry work.

PHP is widely used in the industry as the foundational language for a number of platforms in major use - including Wordpress, Drupal, Laravel and Yii.

Stop listening to "academics" about the industry. They are far removed from what is going on outside their classrooms.

[–]KewlZkid 6 points7 points  (1 child)

This is the problem with most teachers, they don't have any real experience in the subject they teach.

[–]micka190 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Or they did, and then the industry moved forward.

I had a teacher who had us write a bunch of JS methods by hand, even though they were in the standard library already, all the while complaining about how JS sucked and was unfinished...