Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-27 Thread Xah Lee
«use bytes; # Larry can take Unicode and shove it up his ass sideways. # Perl 5.8.0 causes us to start getting incomprehensible # errors about UTF-8 all over the place without this.» From: the source code of WebCollage (1998) http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ by Jamie W.

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-15 Thread Måns Rullgård
Martin Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tin == Tin Gherdanarra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tin Xah Lee wrote: recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it is roughly based on Perl, of which i

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-14 Thread Tin Gherdanarra
Xah Lee wrote: recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery. I suspect that you are a computer program posing as a human usenet correspondent.

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-14 Thread Martin Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tin == Tin Gherdanarra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tin Xah Lee wrote: recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it is roughly based on Perl, of which i

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-14 Thread John Bokma
Martin Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perl, too, since he doesn't seem to understand it when people tell him to bugger off in plain English. It buggers off if everybody ignores it. It posts because it knows that its actions pisses off so many people. -- John Small

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-12 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:25:08 GMT in comp.lang.python, Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The design of the PHP language is not too bad, and the standard library is extensive. It is quite possible to write well-structured, class-based web programs with PHP. However, it seems that almost

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-12 Thread gene tani
= Perl Improved, for a dedicated job of server-side scripting. The design of the PHP language is not too bad, and the standard library is extensive. It is quite possible to write well-structured, class-based web programs with PHP. However, it seems that almost no one actually does so. Virtually

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-10 Thread Tim Roberts
Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery. i felt a sensation of neatness, as if php = Perl Improved

PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread Xah Lee
recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it is roughly based on Perl, of which i have mastery. i felt a sensation of neatness, as if php = Perl Improved, for a dedicated job of server-side scripting

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread Roedy Green
On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it is roughly based on Perl, of which i have

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas G. Marshall
Roedy Green said something like: On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a breeze because it is

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread IchBin
Thomas G. Marshall wrote: Roedy Green said something like: On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : recently i got a project that involves the use of php. In 2 days, i read almost the entirety of the php doc. Finding it a

Re: PHP = Perl Improved

2005-12-09 Thread J�rgen Exner
Roedy Green wrote: Of course I have Xah plonked but thanks to your On 9 Dec 2005 11:15:16 -0800, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [...] Perl, of which i have mastery. I had the laugh of the week. Thank you very much, you really made my day. jue --