Re: [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, 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 to learn and use? Someone I know told me not to bother, but I just wanted a second opinion. (BTW - if you think it is worthwhile to learn Perl, what is a good book to begin with?) Yeah, you should learn Perl. Programming Perl by O'Reilly is the best book out there for that. Then check out the Perl Cookbook by O'Reilly after that. Perl is much more powerful than PHP, but PHP is easier to integrate in to web pages. But not by much. Perl is like a swiss army chainsaw. You can use it for pretty much anything, data manipulation wise. That's where it really shines. PHP has gotten better with PHP4's release, but Perl's syntax is much more lenient and intuitive, making it much easier to do things in Perl than it is in PHP. -Ryan :: ICQ - 595003 :: GigaBoard - http://www.gigaboard.net/ -- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[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, 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 to learn and use? Someone I know told me not to bother, but I just wanted a second opinion. (BTW - if you think it is worthwhile to learn Perl, what is a good book to begin with?) Thank you! Tom Malone -- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question
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 still use the perl regular expresion in PHP), just for that you should learn they language. Once you know a language it's easy to change or learn an other one, the best thing should be learn what you need and get good on this one and if you need an other language then the stuff that you have learned will help you up to learn you new stuff. Book: Learning Perl from O'reilly, O'reilly have the better good, amazing book for Perl. Tom Malone wrote: 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 to learn and use? Someone I know told me not to bother, but I just wanted a second opinion. (BTW - if you think it is worthwhile to learn Perl, what is a good book to begin with?) Thank you! Tom Malone -- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Francis Fillion, BAA SI Broadcasting live from his linux box. And the maintainer of http://www.windplanet.com -- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question
I personally try and avoid using Perl when I can. Perl is difficult to learn to write proficient code in. Perl's moto is, There is More Than One Way to Do It which also mean there are more than a million ways to mess up. Depending upon the programmer Perl can be a write-only language. You can even look at your own Perl code and think What in the world, did I write this? My mind is cluttered with enough garbage so I will not learn anymore Perl than necessary. Long live modern languages! Perl is a necessary evil for a web developer, so I recommend O'Reilly's Learning Perl, http://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, 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 to learn and use? Someone I know told me not to bother, but I just wanted a second opinion. (BTW - if you think it is worthwhile to learn Perl, what is a good book to begin with?) Thank you! Tom Malone -- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] PHP vs Perl question
-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 indispensable tool. I recommend _Beginning Perl_ from Wrox over _Learning Perl_ by O'Reilly, but only by a hair. Both are good. c -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.0.3- signed for information authentication and security Comment: Key ID: 0x51046CFD iQA/AwUBO1YhadaLYehRBGz9EQJcIACgw3pQ3O4fhIbIQUOA84JLclcTOq0AoN5f Q9Em4S5fJ/h7eS6cpYigOLtZ =VYmH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
