(April 25, 2016 at 10:32 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: *idly wonders if saying "I write PHP" is the equivalent to "My cat's breath smells like cat food" in this thread....*I wouldn't say so.
To me, it seems that almost all programming languages are pretty similar. A new language just means a couple extra trips to Google to figure out some of the syntax. The real important thing is what platform your langage is for and what libraries you can use out of the box. If you want to do open-source web programming, PHP is the one you want. If you want to do client-side stuff on the web, it's jQuery or bust. If you want to write something for a robotics project, then c or maybe java IMO. If you want to throw together a complete program in a couple minutes, then maybe C#. If you want to write plugins for popular graphics development software, maybe Python.
But in the end, it's really all the same language with slightly different accents. The only thing that is really different, at least to me, is database programming-- that is a really different experience.
