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Jeff Atwood: PHP Programmer - You write PHP, That's hilarious.

by richardv on 7/15/12, 1:43 PM with 7 comments

  • by Lockyy on 7/15/12, 2:30 PM

    As one person tweeted back at him, "Your comments on PHP have gone from insightful to snide. You’re going to start losing fans and credibility soon."

    I completely agree and think that at this point he's just being a dick and doing this for attention.

  • by richardv on 7/15/12, 1:46 PM

    So he leaves StackOverflow and thinks that he can start continuously marking awfully snide remarks about PHP programmers.

    Either he has changed a lot, or he was putting up a massive charade while working on StackOverflow... The last 4 to 8 weeks he's really gone out of his way to try and put a rift between developers and fuel (for the most part) pointless bashing...

    I don't care what your favourite development language is, we're all picking the best tools that we know how to complete the job. Jeff needs to stop his bashing.

    (I also realise that this also goes a lot deeper, in that he's actually being passive aggressive towards Rasmus).

  • by naner on 7/15/12, 2:14 PM

    How can you even be a PHP programmer without a sense of humor?

    There are many people who just put their heads down and get a bunch of work done in PHP (or Perl/C++/Java or whatever) and don't really pay attention to or participate in the online programming culture/new/community etc.

    I actually have a good buddy who has no CS background but happened to pick up Perl when he was a young and he now makes his living with it. Doesn't give a crap about other tech and spends most of his free time with his family.

    I imagine this comes across as smug and condescending to those folks. Though I suppose most wouldn't be reading Atwood's twitter...

  • by gexla on 7/15/12, 2:17 PM

    How can you be a programmer of any sort without a sense of humor? In fact, how could you get through life without a sense of humor? Life is great, that's hilarious.

    EDIT: Put another way, a PHP developer with a sense of humor is a far happier person than X developer with no sense of humor.

    Weird tweet. I'm sure it breaks one or more rules of logic.

  • by BasDirks on 7/15/12, 1:52 PM

    Very awkward joke. I think it is the responsibility of every developer and engineer to further their craft by being picky in their choice of tools, but this kind of trolling isn't even funny.

  • by devb0x on 7/15/12, 2:29 PM

    there's a lot of this going on right now against PHP..

    I remember getting the same sort of thing when I started a new job many years ago, and it was like 'you're doing Visual Basic? haha'. Nevermind what other experience I was bringing to the table. Bad code can be written in any language.

    I'm perfectly happy admitting I've written PHP. And C++, and C#, and hell even some poor js before jquery.

    You know what... I've grown and am thankful for the experience in all of it.

  • by locifer on 7/15/12, 2:07 PM

    funny facebook