[PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread peery
What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? Thanks, JP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? [/snip] That is like asking what would be the technical arguements of an 10 miter saw and a 12 miter saw. Both are tools, each is better suited to some things and not as well suited for others. In some projects we have several

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread raditha dissanayake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? This is a religious question. Thanks, JP -- Raditha Dissanayake. - http://www.radinks.com/print/upload.php SFTP, FTP and HTTP File Upload solutions -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread John W. Holmes
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? Depends if you catholic or not. Use what you know. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread John Nichel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? Thanks, JP Well, Perl is older and has four letters in it's name. PHP has youth on it's side. Perl is a Camel and PHP is a bird (Thrush or Roadrunner...I don't know my birds). Perl is misspelled more often than

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread John Nichel
John W. Holmes wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? Depends if you catholic or not. Use what you know. ---John Holmes... Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) --

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread raditha dissanayake
John Nichel wrote: John W. Holmes wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What would be the technical arguments of PHP vs. PERL? Depends if you catholic or not. Use what you know. ---John Holmes... Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) oh d..n i hate ASP. -- Raditha

RE: [PHP] PHP vs PERL? (Seriously OT Now....)

2004-04-22 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) [/snip] And if so, what must a Buddhist use? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] PHP vs PERL? (Seriously OT Now....)

2004-04-22 Thread Michal Migurski
Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) [/snip] And if so, what must a Buddhist use? Lisp, of course. - michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/cahttp://mike.teczno.com/contact.html -- PHP

Re[2]: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Davey
Hello John, Thursday, April 22, 2004, 2:37:30 PM, you wrote: JN Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) You meant satanist, surely? ;) (or a masochist!) -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL?

2004-04-22 Thread John Nichel
Richard Davey wrote: Hello John, Thursday, April 22, 2004, 2:37:30 PM, you wrote: JN Uh-oh, does that mean an Atheist has to use ASP??? ;) You meant satanist, surely? ;) (or a masochist!) Ah, yes. My apologies, you're right. Evil has to stick together. An Atheist wouldn't use anything

[PHP] PHP vs PERL? HOPE THIS HELPS

2004-04-22 Thread Brent Clark
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/index2.shtml http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/bench/ary3/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] PHP vs PERL - thanks

2004-04-22 Thread peery
Got a lot of good replies, and info! Thanks, JP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL? HOPE THIS HELPS

2004-04-22 Thread Brent Clark
That's a really interesting link. Thanks! No problem, my pleasure I was quite shocked to see how PHP performed gcc still rocks though Brent -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl for system scripts (non-web)

2003-01-28 Thread Chris Hayes
I'm more comfortable writing stuff in PHP. I use PHP alot more, and I find the resultant code more readable and easier to maintain. Aside from Perl's ubiquity and the dubious advantage of future flexibility by using Perl's DBI interface to talk to different SQL servers (I'm using MySQL at the

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl for system scripts (non-web)

2003-01-28 Thread Maxim Maletsky
Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : I have to write a swath of code to manage system-related stuff based on database content. Scripts will be run as root by cron, and determine what they have to do via user interaction and SQL lookups. Functions will include manipulation of system

[PHP] PHP vs Perl for system scripts (non-web)

2003-01-27 Thread Paul Chvostek
I have to write a swath of code to manage system-related stuff based on database content. Scripts will be run as root by cron, and determine what they have to do via user interaction and SQL lookups. Functions will include manipulation of system configuration files, legacy text file configs,

[PHP] PHP vs. Perl/Mason

2003-01-23 Thread Ray Hunter
Everyone, I was wondering if there are any perl/php programmers that have used mason. I am trying to get the advantages/disadvantages of each? I am pro PHP, but my does is pro perl. What does everyone think about the benefits of one over the other? Thanks, Ray signature.asc Description:

[PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Bora Paksoy
Hi; I am planning to implement a new site which will be using mysql db heavily, and I am in the middle of (and stuck:) deciding what I should use for implementation. I would definitely prefer Java Servlets, but it is very expensive to host servlets, so I am only comparing PHP vs. Perl. I have

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Sterling Hughes
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Bora Paksoy wrote: Hi; I am planning to implement a new site which will be using mysql db heavily, and I am in the middle of (and stuck:) deciding what I should use for implementation. I would definitely prefer Java Servlets, but it is very expensive to host servlets,

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
1.Speed: If you use mod_perl or fastcgi kind of deals (which are based on threadding instead of forking), I don't think PHP is considerably faster than perl? Is that the case? Threading instead of forking? None of these do either. Apache is a pre-forking multi-process server and both PHP

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Bora Paksoy
Why on earth would you prefer java servlets? Hmm... Let's see;Java is a full-fledge, totally OOP and awesome programming language but not a scripting language. Speed (will be mentioning this later), having total control over whatever you want (exception handling, db pooling, caching,

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Bora Paksoy
Threading instead of forking? None of these do either. Apache is a pre-forking multi-process server and both PHP and mod_perl are part of these pre-forked processes. Neither mod_perl nor PHP do any threading nor forking. ??? I didn't get this? Aren't these pre-forked processes handle

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
??? I didn't get this? Aren't these pre-forked processes handle requests using threads internally? Say you configure apache to pre-fork 5 server processes, what you are saying implies that you can only handle 5 concurrent requests?? can you please explain this more? That's exactly what

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
I mean, for example say you have an html that consists of blocks... Making every block an include is clean, but this time, php engine has to read all of these includes, and parse the html+php and compile/run php everytime a request is made??? I am not sure about this? I wouldn't say it was

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread speedboy
ie. don't necessarily use 1 file per block, create functions that are defined in a single file and call those instead of including a new file. How do you echo your html, do you put the html in your functions and escape the double quotes? There is some extra load there echoing all the html?

Re: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
ie. don't necessarily use 1 file per block, create functions that are defined in a single file and call those instead of including a new file. How do you echo your html, do you put the html in your functions and escape the double quotes? There is some extra load there echoing all the

RE: [PHP] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)??

2001-09-16 Thread Jack Dempsey
] PHP vs. PERL (Functional Comparison)?? ie. don't necessarily use 1 file per block, create functions that are defined in a single file and call those instead of including a new file. How do you echo your html, do you put the html in your functions and escape the double quotes? There is some

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question

2001-07-19 Thread Ryan Fischer
I'm pretty new to programming - besides JavaScript, PHP is really the first language I've used. I'm just wondering, and I'm sure you all would know - should I learn Perl? Is it considered a necessity for a web developer to know Perl, or is it not a worthwhile endeavor, considering how easy

[PHP] PHP vs Perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Tom Malone
I'm pretty new to programming - besides JavaScript, PHP is really the first language I've used. I'm just wondering, and I'm sure you all would know - should I learn Perl? Is it considered a necessity for a web developer to know Perl, or is it not a worthwhile endeavor, considering how easy PHP is

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Francis Fillion
I do love perl, even if I mostly code with PHP, but I use perl for stuff that run with a crontab (a script that run on every x date or hours), I know that you can do that with PHP now too, but Perl is a really great and funny language to learn, the best regular expression that I ever use (I

RE: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Nathan
://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/ -Original Message- From: Tom Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:03 PM To: PHP Users Subject: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question I'm pretty new to programming - besides JavaScript, PHP is really the first language I've used. I'm just wondering

RE: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Chris Lott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd go for it. Perl can be messy, but it is also quite powerful and doesn't HAVE to be messy. It is EVERYWHERE both in terms of availability and use. But most of all, it is a fun language to play with... and if you do any system admin it is an

[PHP] PHP vs Perl security

2001-05-15 Thread Jeff
Hi. Are there any known/posssible security issues with PHP using SSL? I'm trying to figure out if it would be better to user Perl or PHP based on their security features/flaws. I'm sure there's holes in both, but which one has the bigger hole...? Thanks, Jeff -- PHP General Mailing List

RE: [PHP] PHP vs Perl security

2001-05-15 Thread Maxim Maletsky
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] PHP vs Perl security Hi. Are there any known/posssible security issues with PHP using SSL? I'm trying to figure out if it would be better to user Perl or PHP based on their security features/flaws. I'm sure there's holes in both, but which one has the bigger hole

[PHP] PHP vs Perl

2001-03-29 Thread David Hynes
Hi, I'm new to PHP (well I used it years ago), and have been using Perl ever since. Someone told me that PHP is a lot more efficient than Perl, is this true ? I am developing a fairly large website using a MySQL database running on a cobalt RAQ3 server and so the speed of the scripts must be

Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl

2001-03-29 Thread Michael Kimsal
David Hynes wrote: Hi, I'm new to PHP (well I used it years ago), and have been using Perl ever since. Someone told me that PHP is a lot more efficient than Perl, is this true ? I am developing a fairly large website using a MySQL database running on a cobalt RAQ3 server and so the

Re: [PHP] php vs perl

2001-02-15 Thread Christian Reiniger
On Thursday 15 February 2001 08:03, Scott Mebberson wrote: When Jason says 'especially when your note using the cgi' he means the cgi version of PHP (I think) in preference to installing PHP as an apache module. ...just as using mod_perl is better than perl as CGI -- Christian Reiniger LGDC

Re: [PHP] php vs perl

2001-02-15 Thread Jason Brooke
When Jason says 'especially when your note using the cgi' he means the cgi version of PHP (I think) in preference to installing PHP as an apache module. Almost, yes - I literally meant the 'common gateway interface', due to the fact that the webserver spawns the requested script/program

[PHP] php vs perl

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff
Is there any reason why php is better than perl for shopping carts and/or product catalogs? Thanks, Jeff -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail:

Re: [PHP] php vs perl

2001-02-14 Thread Jason Brooke
Is there any reason why php is better than perl for shopping carts and/or product catalogs? Thanks, Jeff It's hard to just come out and say that php is better than perl for shopping carts because there's too many factors to take into consideration. If you were a person who'd never used

Re: [PHP] php vs perl

2001-02-14 Thread Scott Mebberson
When Jason says 'especially when your note using the cgi' he means the cgi version of PHP (I think) in preference to installing PHP as an apache module. ""Jason Brooke"" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 04ad01c0970f$927eeff0$0100a8c0@jb">news:04ad01c0970f$927eeff0$0100a8c0@jb... Is there