Hi,
What are the pros and cons to using PHP as a scripting language like Perl or
Python?
After a couple of years using this excellent language for dynamic web pages
(its first purpose), I'm currently starting to program shell scripts with
PHP. Doing so I encountered some minor problems I turned around like the
need to have 2 .ini files, one for web programming and another for shell
scripting: for instance I don't want error messages cluttered with HTML tags
on shell scripts but I need them for web PHP scripts and so on. Some
behaviors are also missing like the ability to fork() a process for
instance.
Before going too far, I would like to know what other PHP users/gurus think
about using PHP as a general scripting language, what should be avoided and
what are the drawbacks I should take care of. Before someone ask me why not
use Perl or Python: I don't like Perl, I prefer Python, I use it too but I'm
not as easy with it as I am with PHP and I'd prefer put all my efforts in a
single language if it can bring me all I expect...
Thanks for any suggestion, idea, comments.
--Gildas.
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