.net Awards 2011: the top 10 young developers of the year
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I guess you need to be a little older to truly form a deep hatred for PHP.
Not that there is no nice, maintainable PHP code out there. It's just that the overwhelming majority of the PHP code I've seen is a broken mess.
With all the hate on PHP, I feel like it's the childhood friend from elementary and middle school that you out-grew because you became "too cool" for them in high school.
It's not like you can get a private VPS for next to nothing and, with things like Google App Engine (which supports Python and Java) going for almost nothing, there is little reason to go with PHP unless you have most of your code already written in it.
PHP is a fine language if you write code properly.
They seem like very unlikely candidates for young self-taught programmers/designers imho.
When I started programming, I jumped into a lot of open source programs, poked them and cloned them just to understand how they worked.
There isn't really that much interesting open source C# / Java software at a basic level, and that I think might be the reason why self-taught programmers are more likely to use other languages.
Also interesting is their education, it's making it obvious that we are moving away from universities (although the sample isn't in any way big enough we can get the hint, I guess)
I also like the mag that's from 1994 with a 'beta' on its logo.
According to the site, it's "The world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers since 1994"