Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:06:44 +0200 From: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl vs php round 1 Message-ID: <417E6804.2080508@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <ef60af09041025221855f37ea5@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af09041025221855f37ea5@mail.gmail.com>
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Gert Cuykens wrote: >Can you do as much with perl as you can do with php ? >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I should think so. In fact, I am pretty sure you can do far more with Perl than with PHP... There are so many modules for perl, I think there's hardly anything short of writing a compiler or operating system that cannot be done in perl (and possibly even that)... Or are you referring to web development specifically? In that regard, I think the two are pretty close in terms of what they allow you to do. PHP has a strong plus since it's embeddable in HTML, and a strong minus, because I did not get a debugger to work with it... I for one prefer Perl a lot, since it's really an all-round language whereas PHP was designed with web development in mind; true, nowadays you can also write GUIs in PHP, but it wasn't meant to do that... However, I think - if you are in fact talking about web development - Perl vs. PHP is more a matter of taste (or other circumstances) than a technical one. Kind regards, Benjamin
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