Just...install php. You don't need to do anything wonky.

Too. Damn. Often.

You're missing my point. It's NOT slow.

Google is your friend. Well...actually, no. Google is the enemy. But you know what I mean.

Python first is REMARKABLY easy to get things done fast with. It's entirely supplanted things like perl (which breaks my heart, as a 15 year perl guy.) It's also much faster than you think. Don't fall prey to the late 80's early 90s "but it's a scripting language" bias. Very large shops use it for some pretty high performance analytics. Over the past 40 years I've been through pascal, C++ (still my favorite, but I can't recommend it), java, C#, a couple assemblers, various scripting languages and 3gl IDEs from the 90s. After all is said and done, not only can I get functional code written and deployed faster with python than with most anything, the code is simple and clear (unless I'm coding completely drunk.) If you add programmer efficiency as a concern, python is just far ahead of the pack. The anti-microsoft thing is different, but meshes with it a lot. Most of it is obnoxious foolishness. But not all of it. Don't marry your tools. They'll all betray you at some point.

Through someone I trust who has already vetted it so I don't have to wade through someone's bullshit social media marketing ploy.

Yeah it's pretty trivial. It's not a matter of cracking the algorithm.

Been working in big finance, insurance, R&D, dot-com startup and marketing industries for the past 30 years. I've never seen anything so bad as this, much less worse.

Then leave. Sounds like a shithole of a job.

Well THAT only took 20 years.

Nah. Not the same issue. Usability seems to be the last concern of a great many developers, and it's apparent in the absolute crap they produce.

Says the guy who bought Boston Dynamics. guck foogle.

The Psy thing is a joke (intentionally.) http://phpthegoodparts.tumblr.com/

I love it. It's the right tool for a great many jobs. The fact that I can just develop and deploy as fast as I can is a godsend.

Python's a slick little language. I use perl day to day. It's tough to justify C++ for these quick hit scripts I've fallen in to writing. God how I miss real programming.

Ugh. Is it really that good? I've fiddlyfarted with it here and there, but I've never done any serious work in it. I've been a C++ guy since the 80s (with lots of everything in the interim.) Maybe it's time to suck it up and take a serious bite out of it.

Fast coders make happy-path code quickly. Slow coders make robust code slowly.

Bravo.

years of questionable drinking habits innoculated me against a particular shot that was served in midtown manhattan almost called the fepperpucker. I used to buy them for troublemakers just to watch them sweat as we sank them. I may not be able to kick your arse, but I can sure make sure you make one out of yourself if need be. Great fun.

Awesome! Thanks for the list. Eh. If I can't manage to dedupe some hosts files then I need to hang it up as a programmer. I'll just bang that out in emacs.