I don't say too much about other programming languages, but I find that people will use whatever they are most comfortable with............. It really comes down to preference, I enjoy perl and don't really like php, but thats just me.
-jordan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cory 'G' Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Perl vs. PHP..... but where is mod_perl? > Hi, > > I am always happy to join into some PHP bashing. :) I feel the same way as > you. I even tried to like PHP for a while. What really bugs me is the > situation that I learned about when I first came to work at this job. They > needed to use PHP to do a POST and the programmer here had chosen CURL. But > he didn't have any possible way to use CURL without the admin at the > hosting company recompileing PHP to be able to use it. Sure, it might not > be the easiest thing in the world to do, but I > have used LWP on local /home/user/lib directories even a local user CPAN > install isn't all that hard. And then wow! You have the power of a root guy > all to yourself. > > But the other issue I think has more to do with users than the PHP lang > itself. It seems like there are LOTS of scripts and comercial products > written in PHP, most of the ones I have seen make use of the horrible > including of files all over the place. It is a total nightmare to change or > debug code like that. I know the guy who was here before me did that, and > he had good intentions, but it ended up just making a bigger mess than if > he had just used one big PHP script. > > > Eric > > At 12:23 PM 2002-10-18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > >I thought that was rather odd as well. I started in on PHP for a bit > >during the summer and eventually dropped it after discovering that OO-PHP > >is deprecated by those Zend folks (supposedly it's "slow" and there are no > >destructor methods). I also didn't want to deal with their useless use of > >sigils and the weird namespacing. If you completely left CPAN out of the > >picture then just as a language and syntax it isn't all that nice anyway. > >*shrugs* I've yet to understand what the appeal is. > > > >Josh > > > > > > > > > >Cory 'G' Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >10/18/2002 11:37 AM > > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > cc: > > Subject: Re: [OT] Perl vs. PHP..... but where is mod_perl? > > > > > >Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > Dzuy> What do you expect from (PHP) amateurs? Apparently Perl is too > > > Dzuy> complicated for them to comprehend, > > > Dzuy> never mind mod_perl. > > > > > > And according to my thread at use.perl > > > <http://use.perl.org/~merlyn/journal/8445>, the article just got pulled! > > > >The article says PHP is syntactically similar to C++. What PHP are they > >using? I picked up PHP in no time because it was nearly indentical to > >Perl. Sure, it's similar to C and C++, but, uhmm, $variable? Also > >mentions Perl has had OO bolted on. How do they view PHP's OO? I'm not > >bashing PHP, quite the contrary. But damn, that's just an ignorant > >article. I do wonder what sparked them pulling it out. > > > >-- > >Cory 'G' Watson >
