[Gllug] Perl / PHP

[Richard Cottrill]

I forget where on the NASA page the article is, but NASA did lose a probe
because they messed up their metric/imperial conversions. I don't know what
language they messed it up in.

Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Ms. Lene Jensen
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 5:41 PM
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Perl / PHP
>
>
> On Thu, 9 May 2002, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>
> > As for simple performance, the free PHP system isn't that well
> optimised.
> > They want you to buy the commercial, accelerated engine.
>
> Well, in tests I have been doing here, I have got a script run with
> mod_php to run 10 times faster than the same script run without.
> Rewriting the scripts to PHP an running them, speeds up that process
> another 4 times, so in my book PHP is faster.
>
> Another thing I hate with Perl, is the ease you can write really bad
> scripts.  The fact that you don't have to declare variables (yeah, yeah,
> I know about use strict), makes my skin crawl.  Also reminds of the
> (urban?) legend of the rocket ship that was lost because of variables
> and fortran...
>
> LJ
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