"Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > but since you replied, can i ask what influenced you most
> > when developing PHP?
>
> Whenever I couldn't decide what sort of syntax to use I copied C
>
> -Rasmus
This makes me think that any similarities to Perl are merely an accident.
Perl was written so that programmers of C (and several other languages)
could easily learn Perl and write in a comfortable subset of Perl syntax.
I've seen a lot of Perl that looks like C and a lot that doesn't.
I had a friend remark how similar PHP is to Basic. I think PHP's
similarities to Perl end after the "$" symbol, associative arrays, and
object syntax (borrowed from C++?). As someone already mentioned, Perl is a
much more mature language.
Dean.
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