On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Richi Plana wrote:
..
> |o| Perl's MAJOR advantage is the DBI -- a database independent,
> |o| object-orientied API. Neither Tcl nor PHP have that feature
> |o| (database independence).
>
> There's actually work on a backend-independent implementation of database
> access for PHP. Forgot what it's called, but it should be at www.php.net
> for the interested.
That's true. I heard about it but didn't feel like yet another layer
between me and the database.
> Just to throw my 2c in: I like both PHP and mod_perl. For simple
> applications, I'd write it in PHP. However, one very grave (for me)
> drawback to PHP is its lackluster support for regexps. For some cases,
> PHP's almost as cantankerous as C.
Argh. Yes. I forgot to mention this because I've grown completely used to
Perl's "regexp anywhere" features that I totally forgot the wretched
function-style regexp support in PHP. I think they're just thin wrappers
around the system regexp library.
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