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You don't seem to know anything about the "web people" you're criticizing here. PHP skills learned two decades ago are still very relevant today. It's the Java of the web world.

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I've initially learned PHP4 when PHP3 was still used. Later I learned PHP 5 which iirc was the first version which had classes. I also learned Drupal 6 and then 7.

Modern PHP code looks nothing like PHP code back then. Of course, the core syntax is mostly the same, but if you look at a framework like D6 or D7 no one would do anything even remotely like this today. PHP security has completely changed since then as well.

What criticism?

That's an excellent point: you described a difference, which is in fact real. Any perceived criticism is just that: a perception.

I thought that Java was the Java of the web world.

Java is the Java of the Java world.

I don't understand the downvotes at all. Yes, PHP 8 is different from, let's say PHP 5, but that doesn't mean knowing PHP 5 doesn't help with writing good PHP 8. Same with Python 2 vs 3.

Hmm no, not at all. My first job in 2002-2004 was using PHP4. I barely used classes (and if I did they were just my code, not from the library because I didn't need anything from PEAR) and used the original MySQL client API. Almost nothing of what I used back then would be useful today. PHP4 vs PHP8 is almost more different than Python 2 to Python 3.

Nonsense. +95% of Python 2 knowledge is transferable to Python 3. Same for PHP 4 to PHP 8.

I agree with your point, but your first word may get you many a downvote; I would remove the "nonsense" word to increase the penetration :).

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