Hello, Me too, in sixth decade on planet earth. Hacking HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Soon to try PHP.
Ernie
You should. Depending on how you treat it, it can be simple HTML with a few extras, or a full-featured programming language in itself. Although I don't suppose you could do large-scale numerical computation in PHP since the process would run out of memory allowed execution time.
---------- Post added at 07:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:00 AM ----------
... large-scale numerical computation in PHP ...
Now that I think about it, I wonder whether you could do that? Just as an experiment. I know it's possible to increase PHP's memory limit, and surely it's possible to raise the execution time limit to something really bigg, or just remove it. The problem would probably be lack of libraries--you'd have to implement from scratch any numerical algorithms you wanted, like a Jacobi or Gauss-Seidel solver or some such.
This would not be something you'd do on X10 hosting.
****, now I'm going to have to go try to see if there are any BLAS wrappers for PHP.
'ello 