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Originally Posted by brandonstills
I can't speak to the exact numbers in this situation, but as a programmer who has been doing it for almost 30 years now I can say the claim does not sound unreasonable. You have to factor in that PHP is a much easier language to program in than Objective-C. PHP has more tools, knowledge, and tutorials available to learn how to do a particular task. This allows for greater efficiency with PHP. There are fewer people that know Objective-C (less supply, greater demand = higher price). Objective-C can take 10 lines of code to do what other languages can do in 1 line of code. Objective-C programmers tend to live in wealthier areas and therefore they demand higher salaries. PHP programmers can be found everywhere and so there are downward pressures on the price due to increased competition from 3rd world countries. Also, venture capital dollars are more likely to find their way into programmers of Obj-C programmers than PHP programmers—that causes even more of a price spike.
Actually this is the norm. There is a great deal of difference in terms of developer productivity between different languages / platforms / technologies.
Have a look at this artice: http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/the-compa...ramm/240005881
It stops at ASP which is still a fairly unproductive language. If I were to estimate other languages using the same scale I would add the following:
Ruby: 1.2
Python: 1.4
Coffeescript: 1.8
Javascript : 2.5
PHP: 4
Objective-C: 11 |
Thanks for reply, finally somebody was direct on topic which was as simple as difference in number of hours that takes to do the same thing in php and obj C.
ps: hourly rates are irrelevant to my question as I already taken that into consideration by quoting "5 times more time" when quote per project was 10 times higher. So I already considered very generous double hourly rate for objective C programmers (while stackoverflow threads suggested only up to 1.5 time higher hourly rate).
So please, everybody, no more posts about higher hourly rate as this was already taken into consideration at the very beginning!
