Re: [SLUG] For great victory!

2001-05-01 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Catie Flick said: If anyone else has some PHP happiness to add here, please do! Like others have said, PHP sucks for its embedding of HTML in the code... but there are ways around this; think Gus' mega cfengine.conf that just includes the other sections. One thing I

Re: [SLUG] For great victory!

2001-05-01 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jeff Waugh wrote: * Error reporting like an autistic mute sucking a ChupaChup. You're just trying to get yourself quoted in someone's signature again... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] For great victory!

2001-05-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jamie Wilkinson Like others have said, PHP sucks for its embedding of HTML in the code... but there are ways around this; ... many and varied ways around this (the Smarty template engine is a pretty well-built method), HOWEVER, PHP still SUCKS. * Zero exception handling. Outrageous

Re: [SLUG] For great victory!

2001-05-01 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh said: * Zero exception handling. Outrageous semantic problems making this very noticable. Bah. Exceptions are for people who write erroneous code ;) -- jamesw Jaq what's wrong with the default? :) jdub It is poopie. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] For great victory!

2001-05-01 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Matthew Dalton You're just trying to get yourself quoted in someone's signature again... Who, me? - Jeff -- You're just trying to get yourself quoted in someone's signature again... - Mahatmir Ghandi -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] For great victory!

2001-04-30 Thread Adam Kennedy
Right ( cocks flamethrower with underslung advocacy gun ) Perl rocks. Why? 1. Easy to get going. You can write Perl in a style that matches what your used to. I have seen Perl like Basic, Perl like Shell Script, Perl like C, and even, god forbid, Perl like Cobol. 2. String based language. A

Re: [SLUG] For great victory!

2001-04-30 Thread Catie Flick
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Adam Kennedy wrote: Now, I've only done a little bit of PHP, so I think someone else would be much better qualified to tout PHPs advantages. I must say, I quite like PHP for its simplicity and ease of use. I like knowing the full picture of things, and thus can envisage