I won't speak for Alexander, but for my part, I find perl syntax to be slightly less confusing than Sanskrit. But, in the interests of full disclosure, I am a total weekend hacker, developing my first big application right now. I tried to learn perl, but I just couldn't. PHP I just... I don't know... got. Like right away. It made sense to me, and continues to. However, the folks I know who really do this stuff for a living all swear by perl.
I know the PHP community is working on something like CPAN (it's called PEAR), but perl has been around so much longer that PHP has a lot of catching up to do in that regard. I don't know... I'm getting better and better at this stuff, so once I am done with this project, maybe I'll make another stab at perl. My 2 cents. >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rob >Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:46 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] databases for linux > > >On Wednesday 20 February 2002 20:57, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> And while I also very much love PHP (and despise Perl for web >> development), it's also very easy to switch the DB backend in Perl, >> thanks to the nice DBI package. > >Why do you despise Perl then ? >No flame wars please. >Just intrested. >I have used Perl, PHP, VB, & Java for web programming and currently favour >perl (in its embedded mod_perl form) but have probably spent the most time >with Java. I find Perl quick and easy to get simply things >running. Ditto PHP. >But when I want to start doing more complicated things like say building >up class libraries or processing XML messages via SOAP then Perl >still lets >me via modules in CPAN but thats not the same for PHP. >Course I might be missing something re PHP, love to learn more if I am. > >Rob > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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