On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:52:36PM +0100, Axel Beckert - ecos gmbh wrote:
> I believe that PHP made it probably because of less syntactic sugar
> (PERL is so sweet ;-) and probably easier installation / lesser
> requirements. For EmbPerl you need PERL, mod_perl and EmbPerl, for PHP
> you just
Hi!
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:51:15AM -, Sam Michel wrote:
> - use of real, proper Perl, rather than having to learn another
> scripting language
That's probably the big point for all perl lovers.
> However, from a marketing perspective there's another key reason for using
> Embperl...(m
>
> 1. Why is PHP so popular, with such an active user community?
I think at the first look it is easier to install and use. You will get more
quickly a first result and if you are a newbie your aren't able to see the
limits of PHP. Also, as Axel said, PHP is available for free at most ISP,
while
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> From: Gavin Carr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 14 March 2002 01:59
> To: Kee Hinckley
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Taking on PHP
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:18:56PM -0500, Kee Hinckley wrote:
> > It sometimes scares me how popular PHP
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:18:56PM -0500, Kee Hinckley wrote:
> It sometimes scares me how popular PHP has become. Aside from not
> being thrilled with it in general (bastardized Perl with a weak
> architecture), I also don't want to be stuck using a templating
> solution that gets marginalize
Hi!
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:18:56PM -0500, Kee Hinckley wrote:
> It sometimes scares me how popular PHP has become.
I believe that PHP made it probably because of less syntactic sugar
(PERL is so sweet ;-) and probably easier installation / lesser
requirements. For EmbPerl you need PERL,
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Kee Hinckley wrote:
> It sometimes scares me how popular PHP has become. Aside from not
> being thrilled with it in general (bastardized Perl with a weak
> architecture), I also don't want to be stuck using a templating
> solution that gets marginalized. (Been down that pat
It sometimes scares me how popular PHP has become. Aside from not
being thrilled with it in general (bastardized Perl with a weak
architecture), I also don't want to be stuck using a templating
solution that gets marginalized. (Been down that path before, for
years I used a embedded Perl sol
