[Gllug] Perl / PHP

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:35:35PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On 09/05/02, 17:15:55, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> > PHP is a *much* nicer language than Perl. 
> PHP's OO model is seriously lacking

Perl is hardly a paragon of virtue here!

>                                                        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.

Perl likewise.

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

Presumably he's referring to the crufty abortions that inexperienced
programmers write.  Of course, he forgets to mention that they do that
in any language.  Perl's liberal use of punctuation and the ability
to use shortcuts such as default variables mean that they can inflict
worse pain in perl than in most other languages.  But that doesn't
matter.  PEBCAK.

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David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

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