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They're majoring in CS not Web Development. PHP doesn't really do anything other than web dev which makes it a poor fit for a general purpose CS curriculum.


> PHP doesn't really do anything other than web dev This is such a complete misconception. Command line apps written in PHP are becoming increasingly popular, not to mention the fact that PHP runs everywhere.


Command line apps in the PHP community are getting more popular. I have NEVER seen one and I wouldn't use it.


So does Java and C and Python to some extent. I don't know a single linux distro that ships without python.




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