Re: [ilugd]: [TROLL] Why I don't like PHP

2002-08-25 Thread amit soni
Grr... read on Just some thoughts I'd put together for a friend. Feel free to flame :-) Why I prefer Perl or PHP sucks 1. PHP is not a general-purpose programming language. No matter how hard the creators of PHP try to make it one, it started out as an embedded web-programming

Re: [ilugd]: [TROLL] Why I don't like PHP

2002-08-25 Thread Arunjeet Singh
As I've said to countless people countless times, GIVE IT TIME. PHP may not be as popular or as efficient as Perl is today, but you need to see where its coming from. Perl has a much older history yes, but it was never meant for the web per se, although it has adapted wonderfully. The fact that