[Gllug] Perl / PHP

[Bruce Richardson]

On 09/05/02, 17:15:55, tet at accucard.com wrote regarding Re: [Gllug] Perl 
/ PHP :


> >Much nicer language than the abortive PHP too.

> Just to put in another point of view, I disagree 100% with the above :-)
> PHP is a *much* nicer language than Perl. 

Depends what you mean by nice.  If you mean clean syntax, then yes.  
OTOH, PHP's OO model is seriously lacking, parts of the language just 
aren't finished and much of it is poorly documented (it is important to 
specify what doesn't work as what does, in a language).  Another minus is 
that the user community has a very low average level of cluefulness, 
since PHP is a popular language amongst those with no coding experience 
or training.

> The only advantage Perl has
> is a unified DB access layer. 

It's hardly the only advantage, I listed several more myself.  The price 
is greater complexity and difficulty.

> But on the downside, it's a write-only
> language...

???

-- 

Bruce

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