From: Jan Steinman Date: July 17 2010 4:33pm Subject: Re: Why is MySQL always linked to PHP? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/222238 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: "Jay Blanchard" > > You always have to use the right tool for the job though. The question > is "are we teaching the inexperienced programmers what the right tools > are? I doubt it! PHP looks a lot like C, and people are taught C in college. So instead of working with something more abstract (like Smalltalk, Ruby, et. al.) they slog through the bits with a relatively low-level language like PHP. ---------------- An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. -- Elbert Hubbard :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::