RE: [PHP] PHP vs PERL

Why the people hate perl comment? I know it was in fun, but still there is no reason to hate perl. Perl is a wonderful language and I use it quite frequently. However, I use it for what it was meant to be: a language for system administration. When it comes to the web though, PHP is definitely superior to perl. Jason Stechschulte jpstech@nc.edu -----Original Message----- From: jeremy brand [mailto:jeremy@nirvani.net] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 7:30 PM To: Sharon Spurvey Cc: PHP HELP, general Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP vs PERL Sharon, PHP is specifically designed to be a high performance web language. PERL is not. PERL pre-dates the web, PHP does not. To do CGI stuff in PERL, most people use the CGIpm stuff, which adds fat IMO. In PHP, that is all part of the standard language. Database access is beautiful and native in PHP, you need to use an abstraction layer in PERL (thus adding to the fat layer). PHP unofficially means People Hate Perl, so this is probably the wrong group of people to be asking, we will be biased -- although above I tried not to be. I can probably come up with more reasons if provoked ;-) -jeremy brand http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---- We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. -- Calvin Coolidge On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Sharon Spurvey wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:31:01 -0330 > From: Sharon Spurvey <merle.pittman@ns.sympatico.ca> > To: "PHP HELP, general" <php-general@lists.php.net> > Subject: [PHP] PHP vs PERL > > I am trying to convince someone to go with PHP on a project we are > working on. Their response was what can it do that can't be done in > Perl? Now obviously I know several things and reasons to use PHP, but I > just thought I put the question out there to see what additional > firepower I get back :) > thanks > > mdp > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net