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Discussion on: What Not to Do as a Programmer - My List After 2 Years of Working In Teams

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Hans-Helge Buerger

Great summary. Espacially point 3 is so true. I work as Software Engineer for over 6 years now and I started with PHP and still write PHP. But as you might know, PHP is not the most loved language out there ;)

But still, I like it. Not because it is PHP but I discovered that I can do many things with programming and I learned that it is not the language. I have been part of so many discussions about "The best language" or "PHP sucks". But nowadays I simply ignore those and keep going. The language (or framework) don't define me as a programmer.

The same is true for so many things: Mac vs. Windows, Nikon vs. Canon, etc. People seem to like to identify themselves by their products. But in the end they use "just" a computer, or taking photos. The photography community like to say: "It's not the camera, that takes the photo, but the photographer."