On Nov 12, 2003, at 2:44 PM, John Dillon wrote:
perldoc
What's the whole point of this thread? That if you look up language keywords (array) and functions by name (array_pop) that you get more relevant information from the language that uses those exact keywords?
PHP has wider web deployment than Perl. Perl has significant web deployment (usually using Apache::ASP, Mason, embperl, or another embedding solution). This is likely not news to anyone here.
perldoc says blah blah blah in a rather two dimensional way and fails:
Your complete laziness in researching the answers to any of the questions you pose says much more about your apparent work ethic than it does about Perl's documentation. All of those questions can be easily answered with
a) a bit of research on the web
or
b) a quick look in the Perl Cookbook
But I want a list of perl functions. That might be the shortest way to the solution.
Perl doesn't follow PHP's paradigm of having a builtin function for every occasion. Instead it provides you a rich set of language constructs that enable you to solve those simple tasks simply.
That says something...like perl started as a string and other things manipulation extraction language -
I mean how often do you want to reverse a string in web design? - whereas php started as a HTML
manipulation language and is good for database interaction, for which arrays are important.
PHP started out as a glue language to provide simple web templating. And yes, it's good at that. But that's a discussion for [EMAIL PROTECTED], and not for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
George
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