Something bad about CI

[eluser]oddman[/eluser]
You're taking what I'm saying to extremes. As I've said before, I'm saying you need to learn lower-level languages in order to do your job as a web developer properly.

I think the author's original point was remembering how to do things with PHP and their favourite sql engine, whatever that may be, and it got skewed on the way.

If you want to learn a framework without knowing the language - by all means go ahead. I'd like to see how long you last. Regardless of framework, if you don't know how to do the basics, you're not going to make it, period.

Let's take database abstraction as an example. Lots of frameworks now are offering easier ways to do inserts, updates.etc. and this is great, for the most part as it allows you to do your job quickly. However, if you forget (or don't know) how to do SQL - locating those future bottlenecks are going to be a hell of a time-consuming role for you.