From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-10-20T04:25:33+09:00
Subject: Re: the level of Ruby programmers vs PHP's

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:00:01PM +0900, SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:
> i asked the same question on Ruby: how do you write some code to print
> out the variable's name automatically as well as its content. In here, I
> got some helpful discussions and solutions.
> 
> And this is what happen instead in the PHP newsgroup:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/browse_thread/thread/e02037a5c14e54c9/3288eeef436b64f7#3288eeef436b64f7

In my experience, the best (and most helpful) PHP programmers are usually
not part of the PHP community -- but they tend to be active members of
communities for other languages.  Unfortunately, you have to be pretty
clever to make a question about how to do something in PHP "on-topic" for
another language's community, such as in ruby-talk.

I guess, if I wanted to know how to do something in PHP, I'd be more
likely to ask for a general solution that would work for both Ruby and
PHP in the Ruby community than to specifically ask for a PHP solution in
the PHP community, since I'd be more likely to get useful responses (and
they'd be especially useful, generally speaking, because they'd be
portable across languages).

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
John Kenneth Galbraith: "If all else fails, immortality can always be
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