From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 15:06:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC5D16A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:06:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61D6C43D2F for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:06:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krylon@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 16198 invoked by uid 65534); 26 Oct 2004 15:06:51 -0000 Received: from i538759C1.versanet.de (EHLO [192.168.0.13]) (83.135.89.193) by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 26 Oct 2004 17:06:51 +0200 X-Authenticated: #685629 Message-ID: <417E6804.2080508@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:06:44 +0200 From: Benjamin Walkenhorst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20041025) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gert Cuykens References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl vs php round 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:06:56 -0000 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