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Posted by Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
11,673 Points

What is the most elegant programming language worth learning today?

Hey all

I get that there is no single best / perfect programming language. I'm looking for the closest thing to the least frowned upon language, as well as being clean, consistent etc.

for example I read PHP gets a lot of flack for being horrible and archaic, although I don't really understand how / why.

From the research I've done, Python seems to be 'up there'. Still, does anyone have further insight?

As always, any answers are much appreciated!

Thanks =)

4 Answers

Eric Roellig
Eric Roellig
9,150 Points
Eric Roellig
Eric Roellig
9,150 Points

Im not sure a "best / perfect language" exists. http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/23jbeq/python_uses_why_python_vs_php/ that is a pretty good thread.

Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
11,673 Points

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

Jen Ollivierre
Jen Ollivierre
929 Points
Jen Ollivierre
Jen Ollivierre
929 Points

Strange people would say that about PHP, when its powers a certain CMS that is the most popular in the world.

Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
11,673 Points

Yeah, there's mixed messages, although a lot are saying it's popular because its relatively easy to pick up, but does not make it good as such. Here's what I've been reading anyway. http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1fy71s/why_do_so_many_developers_hate_php/

rays0
rays0
16,293 Points
rays0
rays0
16,293 Points

Interested to read more on this. I read JS can do both client and server side?

Most of it is over my head for now. http://amix.dk/blog/post/19613

Jen Ollivierre
Jen Ollivierre
929 Points
Jen Ollivierre
Jen Ollivierre
929 Points

I'm a big fan of PHP, as I have said on other threads, I have a logical way of thinking and I am a mathematical freak when it comes to doing calculations in my head. I love PHP a lot. Look at this website www.njasvg.com - Look at the button style menu. That was not created with javascript to know which page is the active page. Pure PHP in action to know which page is active and then generate the seperate CSS to style it. PHP also loads faster than Javascript.

Just making these to say, they all have their good and bad.