That's exactly what I heard from my first programming professor in college, around 2001.
I told him I managed to get an internship at the university 6 months before becoming an actual student and I was working with PHP. He said straight up to me and everyone in the class that PHP was crap.
I didn't listen to him, since my bills were all getting paid regardless of his opinion. I still got an A+ in his class, which was all on SmallTalk. This was just the beginning of the number of conflicts I had between "real life" and academic life.
I told him I managed to get an internship at the university 6 months before becoming an actual student and I was working with PHP. He said straight up to me and everyone in the class that PHP was crap.
I didn't listen to him, since my bills were all getting paid regardless of his opinion. I still got an A+ in his class, which was all on SmallTalk. This was just the beginning of the number of conflicts I had between "real life" and academic life.